Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Books v. Convertibles. Stoke wasted no time. As some students sized him up, he was a friendly, mild-mannered political scientist, still youthful and brisk at 44, whose idea of a good time was to sit down in his study with a copy of Bertrand Russell. But L.S.U. found new President Stoke meant business about keeping politics off the campus at Baton Rouge. He wanted Louisianans to understand that the university was for education and not "an instrumentality of government." Nor was the university a playground. "Give a student a convertible and a textbook," he said, "and you cannot expect...
Wadsworth, who had been out of town for some years before his inauguration in 1725, remarked the valedictory exercises with interest. "I was Informed also that ye President & Fellows should sit with their Hats on when Valedictories are pronounced," he wrote. Early in the senior year, apparently, the Class got together to pick someone to deliver the valedictory. By 1750, there had been added more class officers, a dinner, and a sermon, as well as the Latin oration. In 1743, at an election meeting, several seniors were "found guilty of drinking prohibited Liquors," and were fined...
...West remained cagey and noncommittal. It seemed content to sit back and let Russia make the first move. Whatever the Russians tried to do, Allied airmen last week proved that they could go on supplying Berlin until Joseph Stalin laid his cards face-up on the table (see below...
...Harvey and I sit in the bars," reminisces Elwood P. Dowd dreamily, "and we have a drink or two and play the jukebox. Soon the faces of the other people turn toward mine and smile . . . Then I introduce them to Harvey...
...Anyone," he said, "who thinks I'm going to climb that mountain and sit on top amid the ice and snow spying on Russia through a telescope, must be insane. Besides," he added wistfully, "if the secret service were behind me, I wouldn't have so much trouble raising money...