Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat of the battle, harried Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, scheduled a press conference for 4 p.m. one day last week. He was going to announce the names of the military men and civilian scientists who would sit in judgment on the results. But before 10 o'clock that morning a call went to the Navy Department from the White House. The President wanted the announcement delayed. He was going to appoint an all-civilian board...
...Saul D. Alinsky turned his back on a brilliant criminological career in favor of a life in the Jungle-the slums that lie back of Chicago's stockyards. It was his simple faith that if leaders of the fragmented sections of any U.S. community could be got to sit down together and talk or participate in common action, democracy would be reborn...
...auction in Manhattan. About half was sold; it brought $134,550. Curiosa: 52 "Brickbat & Bouquet" covers. Philatelist Roosevelt had happily kept envelopes addressed to "Dishonorable Franklin Deficit Roosevelt," "Plutocrat F. D. Roosevelt, Owner of 4 Estates, Member of 13 Clubs, White House," "The Sit-Down Politician," "White Father of the Pretty Bubbles." A Manhattan department store...
...Kansas; even when they moved to Washington, and stooped, big-eyed Ray Clapper became first a crack U.P.man, then a Scripps-Howard columnist, they collaborated. Every morning, Olive sat on his bed while they criticized his efforts to "write it for the milkman in Omaha." After breakfast she would sit him down to make voluminous entries in his diary...
...Sit in the chair," insisted the psychiatrist, who guessed that it would do John a world of good to sit bolt upright for a change. "Here in this room," he told John, "nothing is shameful. Even if you've believed it is all your life. When you talk about it, John, when you get it out into the open, you'll discover it's not shame." He unscrewed the top of his fountain pen, poised it expectantly over a writing pad. Then John knew that there was no escape, and he began to talk...