Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there remains the uncomfortable thought that both Washington and Saigon may have indulged in deliberate misunderstandings-the U.S. motivated by its desire to talk substantive peace as quickly as possible, South Viet Nam by its reluctance to sit down with the Communists. The episode contains some lessons, for such conflicts will occur again if and when the Paris negotiations start in earnest. TIME State Department Correspondent Jess Cook's analysis of what went wrong...
...lately been foundering in disorder. Violence began last November when Black Students Union members wrecked the offices of the student paper and beat several staffers for printing what the blacks called racial slurs. Tension increased when demands for immediate reinstatement of five B.S.U. rioters were refused. Students held a sit-in at the administration building. In an embarrassing televised inquisition, the trustees interrogated the college's president, John Summerskill. Not long afterwards Summerskill resigned in disgust, forced out after just 21 months in office...
...ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes an unwelcome intruder, making a simple game out of a serious ritual filled with thunder and grace...
...marigolds make the band dates easy to spot in the block before the games," she said. "I have to get it through to people at other stadiums that dates sit in the band and not in their assigned seats...
...into the air with his head. Around him were a couple of small children, playing with balloons of their own, and several young men and women, also in leotards. While Ted bounced the enormous balloon off his head, the young dancers--members of the Boston Conservatory Dance Group--did sit ups and stretches. In the corner of the room near the door, a group of about 50 students, having taken off their shoes and socks, looked on in bewilderment...