Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of all this uproar many a police chief just decided to sit back and wait for the pyramids to collapse of themselves-an amateur mathematician figured it would take 16,777,216 players to keep a club going for 25 days...
...crack, part of 8,100 furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things would straighten out. Now they sit around the union halls and wonder whether they should move to some place where there is more varied opportunity...
...title would make him "principal military adviser" to the President* and to Secretary of Defense Forrestal. More important, he would also sit in as acting chairman at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected to help solve such nagging disputes as the Navy's air role, the strategic demands of the Pacific, the allocation of military largess to signers of the proposed North Atlantic pact...
...prevailing diplomatic manners, Franco's Spain was still not considered nice enough to sit down to dinner with the neighbors. But there seemed to be nothing against giving her enough money to enjoy a meal in her own dining hall. Last week, Manhattan's Chase National Bank, without objection from the U.S. State Department, gave Spain its first hearty handout from the U.S. since war's end: a $25 million short-term loan, for the purchase of fertilizers and electrical equipment. The loan was a gilt-edged risk, backed by Spanish gold reserves deposited in London, which...
...Golden Hall of Japan's Horyuji Monastery, is unheated and wretchedly uncomfortable in cold weather. So when government painters worked through the winter to copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from the temple's gracefully curved old roof...