Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would drive off before the paid-up customers made it to the back entrance. If the white section was full and another white customer entered, blacks were required to give up their seats and move farther to the back; a black person was not even allowed to sit across the aisle from whites. These humiliations were compounded by the fact that two-thirds of the bus riders in Montgomery were black...
...realization that we need to sit down and talk about this is great," but there's no guarantee that the administrators understand, Milikowsky says. "Convincing them that these issues need to be addressed is a tremendous feat, but we have our work...
Neil Rudenstine will sit in his Mass. Halloffice with a distressed student, unconscious ofthe ticking of the large grandfather clock,playing a counseling role that is perhaps betterhandled by a College administrator. He works lateinto the night handwriting letters--oftenthank-you notes--to acquaintances and colleagues...
...still too early to tell, but final clubs soon may not sit astride the Harvard social scene like the Goliaths they once were. But in response to their increasingly exclusive guest policies, undergraduates are slowly beginning to establish other social clubs...
...Bush's most memorable campaign tactics was to sit on a throne made of beer cans and one can of Ginger Ale (in recognition of students who do not drink alcohol). After the election (Bush finished third out of seven candidates), the throne was sold at a Cabot House auction and has since been recycled...