Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move, fellows," implored the President. "Please don't." Many wounded servicemen struggled nonetheless to sit upright as Johnson walked through the door of Walter Reed Hospital's Ward 34. "I just want to tell you how much your country thinks of you," he called out. "How proud your country is of you. How grateful your country...
Just eleven months ago, Rocker Jordan Christopher, 25, had to stand up there and howl with the rest of the Wild Ones. But ever since he married the boss, Sybil Burton Christopher, 37, Jordan has been privileged to sit around her Manhattan bedlam, Arthur, and admire the plangent din. Last week the Wild Ones were wilder than usual as the ridiculously successful joint celebrated its first anniversary. Jordan and Sybil sliced into a birthday cake to the cheers of such music lovers as Leonard Bernstein and Disk Jockey Murray the K, who kept trying to discuss esthetics above the entertainment...
...about Nothing. To a majority of Chicago students, the sit-in seemed like much ado about nothing. The university's administration, like that of most U.S. schools, gives grade information to draft boards only on the request of the students concerned. And if a student could not thus prove himself a deferrable brilliant scholar, starting May 14, he could take the Selective Service System's Qualification Test, which many high school seniors could pass. The Chicago sit-in leaders held that the university, by not refusing cooperation with draft boards, is implicitly backing the war in Viet...
...been a horrible and evil man," said Somerset Maugham, past 91 and dying at a pace he found painfully slow. "Every one of the few people who have ever got to know me well has ended up by hating me." Then, as if to prove it, he would sit muttering angrily to himself, or fly into sudden rages at his guests. From the wrinkled nonagenarian mouth came the vilest obscenities, and he agonized over the mistakes in his life. "My greatest one was this. I tried to persuade myself that I was three-quarters normal and that only a quarter...
...beginning of the Madison sit-in on Monday precipated a wider student criticism of the draft. Tuesday night the student senate passed a resolution urging the University not to cooperate with the Selective Service System. As a result of the Senate's action, Robben Fleming, chancellor of the Madison campus, agreed yesterday to hold an emergency faculty meeting Monday to discuss the draft. He said that two students would be allowed to attend the meeting and that the meeting's proceedings would be piped into an auditorium where other students could listen...