Word: sit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...come along, but not these few. All these years later, words fail. Modernity comes speaking the language of women's rights, of the dignity and self-determination of children, of limits on the authority of fathers--and even on the authority of prophets. For people who have chosen to sit the last century out, this doesn't compute...
...policy. Over the course of a week in May, the tour will travel across the country and stop at various locations where an openly gay Harvard student will attempt to enlist in the military. Accompanying students will, upon the student’s presumed refusal for enlistment, stage a sit-in at these recruiting stations in the name of meaningful change. Though immediate change may be unlikely, we hope that efforts such as these by our students and administrators will strengthen the fight against “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell...
...that asked students whether they preferred e-mail notification or paper slips in mailboxes was “pretty evenly divided.” However, freshmen interviewed said they preferred the e-mail system. “I don’t check mail very often so my packages sit there for awhile now,” Chen said. William A. Heyburn ’11 said he was irked that freshmen were not notified of the switch. “One day I checked my mail and had six packages,” he said...
...collapsed. They just got hits in a timely fashion.”The Crimson’s season has been defined by missed chances and tough breaks. The last three Harvard losses have all come in walk-off fashion.“After this season, I have to sit down with the baseball gods and have a little meeting,” Walsh said. “We keep shaking our heads wondering when that bad hop is going to come, when that bloop is going to fall. Every time we make a mistake, it seems the other team capitalizes...
...power in order to negotiate with Israel, but in order to destroy Israel. In the past, Israel has made peace with Egypt and Jordan and recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people as soon as each had renounced its intention to eliminate the Jewish State and sit together at the negotiating table. It has never advocated for the elimination of any people or state and, instead, yearns that others, such as Ahmadinejad’s Iran, abandon their genocidal aims. Time and again, Israel has proven its willingness to talk to anyone who advocates a shared vision...