Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All you do is sit all day going...
...also the worst year for Jerusalem's Jews. A few Jews still chanted against the ancient grey-brown Wailing Wall: "Because of the Temple which is destroyed, because of the walls which are broken down, because of our greatness which is departed . . .we sit alone and weep...
...since the days of Cecil B. DeMille's glorious extravaganzas have movie audiences been able to sit in rapture of anything as truly Hollywood as "Caesar and Cleopatra." It fits all the adjectives a cinema press-agent can wholesale: colossal, stupendous, terrific. Scenes of giant Egyptian idols against a red, evening sky, the sand-swept Sphinx, the great columns of Cleopatra's palace, are all magnificent, but unhappily they obscure the important element-a scenario by Bernard Shaw...
...price ceilings would go back on grain, meat, dairy products, cottonseed and soybeans. When the doors opened into the high-ceilinged marble of the Senate Caucus Room for the first public hearing, a flood of businessmen flowed through. Most of them argued that it would be economic folly to sit tight, i.e., let ceilings go back...
...been reading the papers, he said, when the President had finished. He figured it this way: it was time to sit back now. Give the country a rest, things would pick up now and production would start to go. Well, goodbye now, he said; he had to get back...