Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Transcript folded. However, the Globewas still one in six, and as the only fence-sitter was in serious trouble. Between them, the other papers captured most of the Democratic and Republican readers and threatened to squeeze out the Globe...
...voter fills out the card in three places. One part is kept by him as a reminder of his pledge; one part goes to local headquarters, with instructions as to whether he needs transportation or a baby sitter on primary election day; one part, marked "White House Copy," is presumably sent to the President. In the return mail comes a photograph of Johnson and Lady Bird sitting in Air Force...
...typification of the TV tot, Video Boy was raised by an electronic baby sitter. The first word he uttered was "Colgate"; the first phrase he learned to read was "The End." When he puts on his raincoat, he becomes a secret agent. When his mother presses him to finish his carrots, he mutters "it's clobberin' time" just like The Thing. When Dad takes over the set to watch football, he and his sister play Dating Game with her dolls. He doesn't climb trees; he watches Tarzan do it. At three, he spends five hours...
Defeats. His tireless public career as Labor candidate for Parliament, as assiduous sitter on committees, is the record of one defeat after another. Nobody would listen-even when, as adviser to the Labor Party on foreign affairs, he tried in 1938 to muster the party to support rearmament against Hitler. Nobody, Woolf complains, read his three-volume treatise on politics...
...which commenced in 1861 when one W.H. Mumler, an engraver employed by a Boston jewelery firm and in his off hours an amateur photographer, first claimed to have stumbled upon the ability to produce images of the dear departed standing or clustering behind a portrait sitter. After Mumler, a deluge of spirit photographers, most notably Mssrs. Beattie, Hudson and Bournsell of London, Duguid of Glasgow, Bland of Johannesburg, Wyllie of California, and Buguet of Paris, practiced widely and appear to have been extensively if carelessly investigated by photographic experts who failed to detect them in fraud. It is only fair...