Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanding the new Japanese submarine I-58 (TIME, Dec. 24), had surfaced for a breath of fresh air, had seen a "dark object" on a converging course. Fair across the "Indy's" bow, all Hashimoto had to do was fire six torpedoes (five of them had magnetic warheads), sit back and wait for the explosions. There were still unanswered questions: more than 800 of the Indy's crew had got off the ship-why had there been no search planes for four days? Who on the Leyte, communications staff had bungled in failing to report the ship overdue...
...Queen, who likes to consider herself a Cockney by choice if not by birth, is happiest in London. Only on the express command of George VI did she consent to sit out the war in Gloucestershire. Now she is back in blitzed but unbroken Maryborough House, living in six of its 200 rooms with a handful of loyal retainers on her civil grant of ?70,000 ($280,000) a year. She hardly ever entertains any more. When she does, her meals are patriotically, chillingly austere...
...president Frederick Coolidge Crawford, bitterly hated by organized labor, but proud of his personal labor relations in his own open shop plants of Thompson Products, suggested that 1) it was management's job to increase productivity; 2) management was often at fault for labor troubles. Said he: "You sit in your office wondering what your workers are thinking. Do you know that the answer to your human-relations problem lies within the four walls of your plant? Go into your factory. Call your workers together. Ask them about their problems. Explain the relationship between wages and job security...
...panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors with plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand out with fatness; I should flourish as the Cedar of Lebanon that bringeth forth fruit...
Boston's delegation was headed by Governor Maurice J. Tobin, armored in black coat and striped pants. His colleague, tweedy President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the committee sit up by announcing that both A.F. of L. and C.I.O. locals had promised that "there will be no strikes of their members in connection with any work done for the United Nations Organization in the Boston area." Compton also pointed out Boston's library facilities...