Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to think that my left-behind colleagues won't snortle this summer when I sit back down at my old Video Display Terminal; that they'll understand the agony of withdrawal I'm facing. But a terse get-well note I got from a fellow reporter a few months back prepared me for the worst...
...getting an answer." A revealing account of this uncertainty came from a Carter campaign veteran who is now a White House aide: "I really think that for all his political career, Jimmy was so busy becoming something, so busy achieving political office that he never really had time to sit down and decide who he was and what he was politically. He was always forced to improvise as he went along. As a result, when we got to the White House, we didn't know what we wanted to do, what we wanted to be, what we wanted...
...parties. Amid all the drinking and countryside romping, Gelsey stood out as the poker-faced toddler. "Her seriousness was always a source of kidding," says Brother-in-Law Don Bevan. "But she would never encourage it. She would never give the adults satisfaction. You could never get her to sit on your lap and be cuddly...
...Dunn, coordinator for the Paulist Leadership and Renewal Project who also walked as a clown, said her costume was "a way of reaching people you ordinarily can't reach," including isolated elderly people who sit and watch walkers on Commonwealth Avenue...
...demonstration that started Thursday night ended yesterday with a day-long sit-in outside University Hall preventing administrators from entering. About 400 students circled the building yesterday morning at 9:30, and although their numbers dwindled as the day wore on, they had clearly made their point by the time they left...