Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one Administration general, who had been certain the line against pay raises could be held: "We could not sit on the safety valve any longer at the risk of riots and disorders. It is better to release a little bit of our pressure than to try to hold it on. A great deal of patience will be required to get us over the next three months...
...reason: the Academy's lock-step method of teaching. Daily, across the Yard, in & out of Luce, Dahlgren, Isherwood, Maury Halls, squads of midshipmen march to get their marks, file into class, sit down, open books, stand up, recite, sit down, stand up, march to the next class. The question (said Annapolis' critics on the inside) is not what they know but what they momentarily remember...
...Kyser, 40, drawling, corny Professor of Musical Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
...themselves. At the top is Charles Erwin Wilson,* 55, who gets $151,000 a year plus bonuses. White-haired, slow-talking, he bossed G.M.'s conversion to war, is now guiding it back to peace. In the U.A.W. strike against G.M., it is Charlie Wilson who will sit down and face the union across the bargaining table. Sloan has never done the actual bargaining with the U.A.W. An engineer by training, C.E. stepped into Big Bill Knudsen's place when Knudsen went off to war, soon showed himself a tough, quick-witted bargainer, and superlative production...
...Germans are well aware, says Author Hauser, of what has happened to America. If America attempts to impose upon them a democracy which they consider to be a fraud, the result will be rebellion and chaos. Nor will the Germans, sitting among the ruins of their devastated cities, recognize the right of the builders of the Flying Fortress to sit in judgment over them...