Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Law School, Black law students gathered in the office of Dean James Vorenberg '49 to protest the lack of minority faculty members. There was no violence, and no arrests were made. Instead, Vorenberg's secretary showed the demonstrators how to use the coffee machine. After a one day sit-in, an agreement was reached...
...about baseball: he's done it for years, and is responsible for such books as The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Late Innings, all of which convey his love of the game. He shares technical secrets with other diehard baseball fans--those who don't have the opportunity to sit down and discuss the finer points of the game with the likes of Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, and Dan Quisenberry, as he does. Season Ticket, a collection of Angell's reminiscences on the 1983 through 1986 baseball seasons, is one of the books that can't be read by skimming...
...wasting my time? Why don't you mind your own business. It's a nice day--run along and play the stock market or something. We've all got things to do, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit around and listen to some wise...
Rancher Bill Haas turns up the heat against the chilly morning as he waits, first in line, for the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater, Texas, to open at 8 a.m. In the back of his brown-and-tan Ford pickup are 1,042 lbs. of live rattlesnakes. Behind him sit ten more trucks, also filled with live rattlesnakes. The snakes, venomous Western diamondbacks, are reluctant participants in what has become a rite of spring in rural Texas: the rattlesnake roundup...
...vulnerable and Ronnie as aggrieved. "I was taken aback by the vengefulness of the attack," the First Lady said. "It comes through that Don Regan doesn't really like me." At a lunch with Columnist Carl Rowan, Reagan played the angry husband. "I'll be damned if I just sit by and let them railroad my wife," he said. He noted that Nancy was upset for having caused the furor, but Reagan then told her, "No, honey, I brought all this down on you by taking this...