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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claims to be "a secret swinger," lavishes his attentions on plenty of other Washington ladies. By making a pact with White House Social Secretary Lucy Winchester, he has contrived to be seated next to the most beautiful women at presidential dinners, even though protocol would normally demand that he sit with the visiting dignitaries. At the state dinner for South Korea's President Chung Hee Park in San Francisco, Kissinger wound up beside Zsa Zsa Gabor. Occasionally, he turns up with Gloria Steinem, the smashing-looking Gucci liberal who writes for New York Magazine. "He's terribly intelligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE SILENT MAJORITY'S CAMELOT | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...being too much the scholarly diplomat and not enough the activist type. The editor of an intellectual journal was warned to abandon his "terrific liberal bias." Grumbled one veteran from the Democratic years: "Shakespeare wants gung-ho Kiwanis boosters in Communist countries. What we need are officers who can sit down and patiently negotiate cultural-exchange agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agencies: Thinking Positive at USIA | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

After ten minutes of actual blood giving, the other nurse began closing off valves and unhooking me. She put a wad of cotton and a super-sized bandaid over the puncture. Then the nurse told me to sit up slowly and wait for an escort. A nice old lady wearing a volunteer's blue orderly coat escorted me arm-in-arm over to "the canteen." I was seated at a table and told to stay there at least 15 minutes to rest and eat crackers, cookies, and have something to drink (coffee, Coke, or Seven-Up). The wives of some...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: And Life Blood Today at Mem Hall | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...contrast, J. B. Blunk's "seating sculpture" was only spottily polished for showing off redwood grains. Blunk took a huge chunk of redwood and hacked and carved it so at least four people can clamber over, sit on, put their hand through and lie down on it at once...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Crafts Objects: USA | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

...create our next parody. You will make close friends, and when you're an alum, you'll sit with these same friends at football games. And one of the experts on our staff can teach you how to predict tootball scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Revolution | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

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