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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also said she has asked President Derek C. Bok and Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert M. Coles '50 to sit on the project's advisory board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.Y. Alumni Run Public Service Group | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...well-connected sleazeball who recruits naive high schoolers to North Carolina State with visions of national TV, number-one rankings, superstardom and sports cars, only to sit them on the bench? The racist manipulator who covers up his players' drug problems, illiteracy and criminal tendencies without trying to get them help? The egomaniac who pressures professors and administrators into preserving eligibility for Wolfpack cagers in his single-minded pursuit of NCAA glory and the all-mighty buck...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Scandals Off the Court With Jim Valvano's N.C. State | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...knew it was wrong for me to be hiring prostitutes from time to time," Frank said. "Gobie wasn't the only one. I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't sit home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Admits He Used Additional Prostitutes | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...going to go into these people. Am I happy with what they did? No, I'm not happy. But I'm not going to sit here and say they were at fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Sam Speaks Up | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...nonviolent alternative to armed struggle has also failed to break apartheid. The M.D.M. stages isolated events in its "defiance campaign" but has been unable to put together a sustained strategy of mass civil disobedience that could successfully challenge the government's power. If thousands of blacks staged sit-ins, walk-ins and swim-ins at segregated institutions every day for months, the system could crack under the strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Movement but No Revolution | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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