Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first question heard in our quarters after we knock off work is, "What's the movie tonight?"and usually,the reply is: "It stinks." If we don't go to the movies, we just sit around and go "hut-crazy," so we really appreciated TIME giving us a swell plug...
...hell in one battle than we could possibly go through in a whole war." Said a Naval officer off Attu: "It makes me feel guilty when I think of what the soldiers are suffering out there, climbing up mountains in the face of machine-gun fire. And here I sit on a warm ship, eating a steak...
...Vannevar (rhymes with beaver) Bush, in peacetime president of the Carnegie Institution's vast scientific empire. His job is unprecedented in U.S. military history: as chairman of the Army & Navy's Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, he is the first civilian technician ever to sit in the highest war councils. The Office of Scientific Research and Development, which he commands, is in effect a fifth branch, G5, of the military general staff. Under OSRD (working with the Army's and Navy's own laboratories), practically all the nation's military-scientific research...
Author-Columnist Fisher sums up: "I'm against columnists. I can sit with a friend and talk things over and he might say I'm full of hop and maybe I am. But when I write something in the paper hundreds of readers take it seriously. They give it disproportionate weight...
...McCormick, Thomason worked under him for nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could be passed through the mails. Excerpts: "The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...