Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also without qualms was Charley Lupica of Cleveland, who swore that he would sit on a flagpole until the Indians moved into first place in the American League. Last week the Indians were in third place and Charley was still aloft, on a platform fitted out with a television set, a down-filled mattress and a telephone...
...rulings on objections, to object to rulings on objections to rulings. Fortnight ago, Harold Medina, who had often talked as if he had had enough, acted at last. When the Communists' lawyers tried to outshout him, as they had so often done before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field day is over," Medina snapped. In Manhattan's Federal Court, the eleven defendants (accused of conspiracy to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S.) looked stunned. Even the lawyers seemed a bit subdued...
...admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...
...crime and their own stand against conscription; many concluded that they were as eligible for the lockup as he was. Said one of President Truman's aides: "These conchies give you nothing but grief and trouble. They won't even apply for parole-they just sit there in jail making martyrs of themselves and stirring up trouble." But there were signs that Larry Gara had also had his fill of martyrdom. Last week a minister friend was trying to find a job for him and a place to live, so that he could put in a formal application...
Male Animal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Dorothy Bemis Radford won a divorce on the ground that her husband would not allow her to sit on his lap to watch television. Mrs. Joyce Holdridge sued for divorce, charging that every time she was near her husband she would "break out in a rash from head...