Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Abraham Lincoln knew, unique events that happened fourscore-plus years ago provide a useful way of marking time. The summoning of such events, as if at a seance, makes an audience sit up, take notice, realize just how much water has passed beneath the bridge. Also: A grander grandeur accrues to the long-past achievement as we reflect on how many human generations have come and gone in the interim ? not only how frail is the flesh, but how rare was the deed. Such a bygone event, hearkened, creates nostalgia and longing. That must have been wonderful...
Native Californians learn at an early age that it's impossible to explain the place to the rest of the world, so why bother? Nobody believes it when Californians say they don't sit around worrying about earthquakes and mudslides; that they don't care when two professional football teams leave the state's largest city inside of three months; or that in the world capital of nutcase extremists, the guy who really seemed like an odd duck a year ago was Gray Davis, a nerdy gubernatorial candidate who claimed he would govern from the center, of all places...
...most successful of the independent bot sites. It's about to start a service that will e-mail you whenever any online merchant lowers its price for a particular item to an amount you're willing to pay. Feeling frugal about that $150 pair of binoculars? No problem; sit back and wait until the market takes it down to $99. Then jump on it. (As you would expect, there are auction bots that do exactly the same for eBay and its clones...
...swappable," which means you don't have to reboot your machine to use it.) If I were always on the road, traveling among big cities, it would be terrific never again to have to reconfigure my laptop's dial-up connections. It's also swell to be able to sit in a boring meeting and check e-mail or browse...
...live in Quincy House. Since Adams started enforcing their ban last week, Quincy dining hall at noon has become a complete zoo. I had to wait five minutes today just to get my card swiped, and then it's almost impossible to find a place to sit, especially if one wants to have enough seats to be able to sit with friends...