Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand, Germany's famed financier was iron-cold, well-dressed and superior. He seemed rather glad to be out of the dock where one had to sit with such dreadful people. He said that his fellow defendant Goring, for instance, was an ignorant and "immoral criminal type" who liked to play Nero at parties (complete with toga and rouged lips). At that, Göring rose furiously, had to be restrained by Admirals Raeder and Doenitz...
Mary MacArthur, 16, daughter of Actress Helen Hayes and Playwright Charles MacArthur, approached her stage debut in a speaking part.* Coming (to summer theaters in New Hope, Pa., and Suffern, N.Y.): mother & daughter in Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire...
...favored needy sit, dull as cattle, while a coolie ladles their gruel out of a wooden bucket. Many are rheumy-eyed from malnutrition and blink and squint constantly as they slup their food. The sound is like the suction of noisy plumbing. When they are through, they wrap their bowls and chopsticks in cotton rags and go quietly away to wait for another meal...
...does, however, admit that the squad is ready for the contest but wishes he knew a little more about Yale's ability in gather, points. Three men who had to sit out the last meet because of injuries will be ready for action against the bulldogs tomorrow. They are Doug Pirnie, Ted Withington, and Cliff Wharton...
...traveler exposed to cholera in Naples can land in New York the next day without realizing that he has picked up the disease. A homeward-bound Denverite may leave a typhus area in China, sit down at his own table two days later, unaware that typhus germs are at work in his system. Because the incubation period for many diseases is a fortnight or longer, air travel has multiplied the chances of travelers' bringing disease home with them. Yet the quarantine system has scarcely changed in 500 years...