Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in the sit-ins of 1960, S.N.C.C.-commonly known as SNICK-immediately became the most aggressive of the civil rights groups, sometimes appalling older outfits by its sheer bullheadedness. As legal barriers to Negro freedom dropped some S.N.C.C. leaders appeared to reject cooperation with whites as a kind of treasonous collaboration. Before the Alabama primary earlier this month, they even urged Negroes to boycott the election and to give their votes to independent Negro candidates in November...
...sit down," gasped that grand old daredevil Ray Harroun, as he clambered from his Marmon Wasp after winning the first Indianapolis 500 at an average speed of 74.59 m.p.h. Not finding any place else to sit, Harroun climbed back into his car and nearly fainted dead away...
...reckoning, on a downtown-to-downtown basis the turbotrains should approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved rights-of-way using...
This is not to say that Reston has ever really entered the realm of the abstract. His columns are almost always tied to current events. He will sometimes call a dozen people to produce a single sentence. And facing a 7 p.m. deadline, he often does not sit down at his typewriter until 4. Late one afternoon, when asked when he was going to start writing. Reston replied that he wasn't an intellectual and did not need to sit around thinking. He was waiting, he said, turning back to the ticker, to see what the news...
...Harvard Band will make a last effort to entice spring to Cambridge and ease the shock of finals at 3 p.m. Sunday on the steps of Memorial Church. It will be your last chance this semester to sit against blossoming trees in damp grass amid a fleet of baby carriages and just listen to music. You can meet all the pallid friends you haven't seen since October...