Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Busy. As one of his first acts, President Truman had invited his old crony, Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, to sit with the Cabinet, because of McKellar's position as Senate president pro tern. It was commended in some quarters as a further presidential gesture of friendliness to Congress. But others saw it differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening...
...Three rule of thumb: when Russian negotiators sit hour after hour, staring glumly at their navels, things are going badly. When they look their opponents in the eye, and smile, things are going well...
...Priestly, blunt-penned British novelist, decried his countrymen's subjection to American films-"to sit through trash that was never meant for them but for school children out in the Middle West." His emancipation plan: "stop this American . . . film drivel...
...much time as possible on his Doylestown, Pa. farm, where he grows wheat and alfalfa and raises Aberdeen-Angus cattle. His one eccentricity is that he writes standing up. But even that is based on logic: he paces so much when working that it saves time not to sit down...
Before long, Joe Frazer intends to sit down with Graham's directors and decide on a salary for himself. Said he soberly last week: "After all, you can't expect a man to go on working for nothing...