Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncle Sam. Amid war, peace, poverty, affluence, radicals, demagogues, criticism, praise, sit-ins, freakouts, insurgence, resurgence, hope and despair, he somehow survived his 193rd year...
...welcome this new reputation as a secret swinger. Now, when I sit beside a beautiful woman at dinner, if I bore her to tears, she thinks it must be her fault...
...Nixons will spend Christmas Day in the Executive Mansion and then fly out to San Clemente for a brief holiday. At the family celebration, Nixon will doubtless sit down at the piano to play his Christmas specialty-Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the first Christmas song Daughters Tricia and Julie learned to sing. For the first time, however, the entire family will not be together on Christmas. Julie and David Eisenhower are flying-student fare-to Brussels, where David's father, John, serves as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...Christmas vacations drew near, some college administrations (at Fisk and Manhattanville) ended classes early, isolating student sit-ins. Two major universities, however, responded to earlier demonstrations with stiff new rules and penalties...
...First Negro student sit-ins at Greensboro, N.C., lunch counters...