Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another innovation will be a "name" band, not yet decided upon, instead of a local orchestra, to play for the formal dance on Monday, June 20. The final new wrinkle in the proceedings will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 21, when the Class will sit together to watch there Harvard-Yale-Cambridge-Oxford track meet...
...secrets are hard to keep in Bonduel. The oldsters soon realized what was up, and campaigning began in earnest. Hot Rod made a speech: "Some of these Bonduel people must have been born old. All they do is sit on their fannies. Elect us and we'll do something." "These young fellows haven't got enough experience," replied John Froelich. John's wife added her two-cents' worth at the dinner table: "Lorenz, you quit this silly business. You're getting too big for your breeches...
...Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used to sit in school daydreaming, and I always suspected he had his fishing pole hidden out back somewheres." In high school Chuck speeded up some. Miss Gonza Methel, a teacher, remembers him as "one of the best geometry students I ever...
...afforded to show their determination to accept the challenge wholeheartedly? . . . Communism is man's challenge to Christianity, but it is also God's judgment upon flabby churches . . . When it is proved that Christians can accept . . . criticisms and prove them to be unsound and untrue, thoughtful Communists will sit up and take notice...
...Black Hats. In a London hotel, watching the faces of those about him, Tom thinks: "When Chaucer wrote of pilgrimage . . . then every man knew where he was, and where he could go. But now all is confusion and no one has anywhere to go. They leave home only to sit under glass roofs, in black overcoats and black hats, with faces so private and cunning that you are afraid of them...