Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans did in the early '50s. The U.S. influence, in fact, is sometimes a disruptive one in families abroad, where the desire of youths to imitate their freer American counterparts may run smack up against an authoritarian family structure. When Free University of Berlin students recently staged a sit-in, they asked an American visitor: "Is this the way they did it in Berkeley...
...However medically imprecise, said Kaufman, the phrase became "a legal term of art" that clearly barred Boutilier as "a homosexual long before leaving Canada," and authorized his deportation even if he had lived "a life of impeccable morality" in the U.S. Ruled Kaufman: "It is not our function to sit in judgment on Congress' wisdom in enacting the law." In dissent, Judge Leonard P. Moore called "psychopathic personality" an unconstitutionally vague term that immigration officials blindly applied to Boutilier without even giving him a medical examination...
Shortly after the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings, a corner of the Adams-for-Senate office in Boston debated whether or not their candidate should spearhead a sit-in at the Federal Building to protest the new escalation...
...would like. For his investment, he found only one pencil sharpener in the entire office. The photography darkroom was a closet, and prints were dried in the men's room. "When the editor wanted to have an editorial staff meeting," says New Publisher Carlyle Reed, "he would sit down and think. He was it." Adds Assistant City Editor Tom Horton: "We were so shorthanded you couldn't even consider getting sick." Copley plans to pump in as much as $8,000,000 to give the Union the muscle it needs to fight...
...weeks ago from one of BEA's own pilots. Captain George Stone, a bearded veteran of 45, frustrated by delays in getting a serviceable plane to take flight 5022 from London to Glasgow, told his passengers over the intercom, "I am ashamed and embarrassed that I have to sit here and apologize to you yet again that this service is running three hours behind schedule on a flight that takes one hour and ten minutes...