Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion if you are the type who will be bored as the Glee Club sings on the steps of Dartmouth Hall, the kind of a gent who doesn't intend to play some part in the extracurricular activities, and a sap who will sit in the grandstand and talk to your girl friend while the boys dig their noses into the sod to bring glory to the Big Green, then you've picked the wrong college and should change your plans before it is too late."--September 13th issue of The Daily Dartmouth...
Squat Down Tactic. The squatters' supporters suddenly staged a squat down, sitting nine deep on the main thoroughfare in front of the apartments, blocking traffic. Some sat under the wheels of a large red London bus, waving their fists up at the driver. Six mounted policemen came up the road. "Fascists, fascists, fascists," the squatters yelled. The horses, six abreast, ploughed through the crowd up to the squat downs. Defeated, inflamed and humiliated, they scrambled backwards. One or two aimed blows at the horses' heads. Some tried pushing cigarets into horseflesh. For a moment there was a whiff...
...horns are honked at lighted corners too, and many times horns are honked continually out of exuberance. Said one philosophical Mexican: "It is a form of national egomania. For so long we were without such wonderful material possessions. Now if a man has an automobile or at least can sit behind the wheel of one, he wants to advertise it to the world, just as some of us who have electric refrigerators place them in the best part of the house...
...idea that the money should be used to give about a dozen newsmen a year a chance to study at Harvard as "Nieman Fellows," take whatever courses they liked. The plan has brought prestige to the university, and given an unacademic lift to courses where the outspoken newsmen sit...
...also presides over "ad hoc committees," which Conant (who invented them) calls "the best invention Cambridge has seen in years." Aware that standing committees to fill faculty vacancies invited politicking, Conant decided in 1941 to draw up a new committee every time there was a new vacancy. Prominent outsiders sit on the committees...