Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they plumped for the old constitution (which no one expects), the assembly would become the new Chamber of Deputies, and the Senate would be chosen, as before, by deputies and regional councillors. If the people voted for a new constitution, the delegates would sit for seven months as a constituent assembly, i.e., a constitution-drafting body. De Gaulle and his Cabinet would continue to run France, "consulting" the assembly only on such matters as budgets and treaties...
Dirty Tricks Department. At 62, Halsey is still rugged, and in better health than he was three years ago. He rises at 0600, reads the overnight accumulation of dispatches while downing scalding coffee, and greets his staff at breakfast at a more comfortable hour with a grinning "Sit down, goddammit...
...Freight cars rattled eastward across Ger many. Russian and Polish repatriates were packed in until there was no room to sit. Some, looking happy for cameramen, sunned themselves (see cut), waved at Red Army soldiers, ducked when the train crawled through a tunnel...
...French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
...more President Kruger sought to milk them with taxes and curb them with limited franchise; the more he succeeded, the more vengeful they became. As one old Boer summed it up: ''There are two riders but only one horse. . . . The question is which rider is going to sit in front...