Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing to revitalized the peace effort. President Johnson held out for a reciprocal gesture from the North Vietnamese, and now he has apparently had his way again. The North Vietnamese have de-escalated the conflict around the demilitarized zone and agreed to permit the South Vietnamese government to sit at the conference table...
Although Johnson's agreement to let the NLF sit at the conference table is a hopeful sign, it is still far from clear that he is willing to face these facts. Until he or his successors do, time will continue to take its toll while we wait for terms we have no right to demand...
...Frank Forrester Church has al ways been something special. At 32, he was the youngest man in the U.S. Sen ate. Now 44, he has won a nationwide reputation as one of President Johnson's most adamant critics on Viet Nam. It is a posture that does not sit well with some Idahoans. He is also bucking a G.O.P. tide that seems certain to deliver the state to Nixon. Yet even his enemies concede that Church is likely to win a third term, defeating a determined challenge by conservative Congressman George V. Hansen...
Heimert claims that his detachment from himself is characteristic of the downcast fifties, his age, the time when everyone walked with his head bowed to the ground and the only way to know heroes was "to sit in the room and read about them." The real men of the fifties are out in Belmont now, driving VW's, taking in a foreign movie now and again, speaking a bleached language and leading bleached lives. A dry-fuck life, Heimert would call it, if he weren't a shade too decorous to make a comment like that from any podium more...
...group to another, completing or urging the completion of half-formed plans. He assembles dinners and meetings in the hope that those convoked will somehow adhere and persist. His aim is the old one of making something out of the curious mixture of professors, tutors and undergraduates who sit down to lunch every day beneath the glum stare of the 14-point moose who surveys the House dining room...