Word: sit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Your "Back & Forth" column quotes CNN President Jon Klein as saying of the press coverage of Palin, "I don't think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job." The news media did exactly that for Barack Obama. Richard Laxton, Bowraville, New South Wales...
...ACTION: Sit tight...
...exchange for a room in the dusty corner of a cellar. I prepared myself for anything by bidding adieu to pride, English, and unscarred forearms. When I arrived early one August afternoon, the kitchen staff was having their family meal before the lunch rush and invited me to sit with them. I couldn’t understand a word that was flying back and forth across the table; two months away from classes had erased any knowledge of Italian. The staff at least seemed nice, and young, and not big enough to eat me. “Have you ever...
...thus the bouncer filtered out any preying upperclassmen from the First Chance Dance—or “last chance dance,” as one freshman deemed it, only too appropriately. Freshmen awkwardly looking for someone to sit with were replaced by freshmen awkwardly looking for dance partners, groups of freshmen girls dancing in protective entryway clusters, and overly enthusiastic males attempting to infiltrate these clusters. In front of the dancers were scattered Crimson Key Society members, recognizable by their red sweatshirts and unassailable pep. Not allowed to fraternize with the impressionable innocents per unspoken policy, the Keysters...
...Before it is too late, someone needs to sit the President down and give him the bad news that Pakistan is a bridge too far in the "war on terror...