Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...sit here at the moment with the destiny of our nation resting on our judgment and our ability," he said. "We think we are competent. We think we can fulfill our responsibility. But how can we be sure?" He had added: "And as far as I am concerned the press is one of my best inspectors general...
...evenings, over a cup of jasmine tea or a Bourbon oldfashioned, the Special Envoy would mull over the day's progress. In slippers and dressing gown, he would sit at his desk in the study bedroom, where two photographs of. Mrs. Marshall looked at him reassuringly, and pen terse reports to Washington...
...across the street to see Santa Claus. Says French: "I walked outa the joint and across the street. I looked at those kids' faces and saw how happy they were as they told Santa Claus what they wanted for Christmas. I thought I'd just like to sit somewhere and take pictures of those faces." The following Christmas he took a leave of absence from the PI, rigged his camera inside a box so that he could snap the children unseen, sold candid shots of moppets on Santa's knee, at $1 a print. Last year...
Irked by such talk, the Administration has changed the policy on surpluses abroad. Under a directive from President Truman, the Army and Navy will bring home surplus goods in the Pacific, instead of letting them sit while the Foreign Liquidation Commission (which handles surpluses), hunts buyers, usually with no success...