Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ahead of Harry Truman, and behind him, were other Americans and Britons who had come to sit with the Russians at Potsdam: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, General of the Army George C. Marshall, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson - finally, in the 14th plane, Winston Churchill himself...
Halsey's job was to sit behind a desk in Noumea and direct a campaign while other men fought the battles. Rear Admirals Daniel J. Callaghan and Norman Scott were killed in the crucial series of night actions known as the Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15, 1942), which turned the Jap tide from the shores of "Bloody Island." Halsey became a hero and a four-star admiral. He took off the pins with three stars on them, ordered them sent to the widows of Callaghan and Scott. "Tell them," said he, "that it was their husbands' fighting...
...household of the Privy Councilor Menshikov, Marta soon became "a part of the gay, foul pageant of the Muscovite demimonde." She endured with patience Menshikov's orgiastic embraces and downed her vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary for the guests who would...
...orchestra-floor level. Indigo blue drapes circled the room; in the center was a huge circular table with a smoky blue base and cover. A royal blue runner led through a narrow opening in the drapes. Through this aperture the delegations would file, one at a time, to sit in gold-backed Louis Quinze chairs...
...middle of the road: when policy puts him under attack from the Tory, right, he can expect support from the CCF left-and vice versa. But the combined opposition is now strong enough to do some boat-rocking. No longer would the minority parties be prone to sit by, as grandstand critics, making noises solely for the record, taking little responsibility. With the Liberal Government's former whopping majority cut to a minimum, there would be closer scrutiny of legislation, more informed and useful debate. The Liberals would now have to mind their political knitting. Out would...