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Word: sitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of more clouds than sunshine; Michigan was the storm center of labor's worst squalls. 'Auto workers, fighting for union recognition, staged the great sit-down strikes. For six weeks the gentle, violence-hating Murphy sat by and refused to throw them out by force, finally settled the dispute by mediation. Michigan declined to re-elect him. But Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of an Apostle | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Detectives, sheriffs and special investigators swarmed in to ask him questions. Mickey was impatient. "They want me to sit here and lie-just to make it look like they're getting somewhere. Well, I don't lie. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lead a real pure life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...were a few wise-looking Americans and many sheepish Europeans. One lorgnetted lady inspected the game, flounced away horrified. This was not the old Monte Carlo she knew. A Briton fumed: "If they expect people to play this beastly game, the least they can do is to let them sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Les Crops | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...directors of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. meet in the cream-walled board room of London's Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Under the Big Globe | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...wanted to be accused of rocking the boat. But no one seemed willing to sit still either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Questions & Answers | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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