Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local scene, the committee has been canvassing votes for George Markham, who is running for state legislator on both Democratic and Progressive tickets, from wards 5, 6, 7, and 8. The girls have been distributing campaign literature to the public, and have volunteered to baby sit for Markham voters and canvassers...
...injury scales should be evenly balanced tomorrow. Charley Binder regular Holy Cross halfback, is hors de combat, and first-string center Jim Deffley's action will be limited. As for the Crimson, defensive guard Sam Butler will sit this one out, and reserve line-men Walt Coulson, Emil Drvaric and Skip Garvey may have to spend the afternoon taking a national pre-medical school examination...
...West Coast. They withdrew their offers, and took the position that they could not negotiate at all so long as Bridges and other Maritime Union chiefs refused to sign the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. The owners showed every sign of being prepared to sit it out until Bridges was busted. Bridges had the choice of eating crow or explaining to his members why they should continue a strike which had cost them more than $5,000,000 in wages...
Eire, which is also technically a Dominion, was not invited to the conference as a whole, but was asked to sit in on a special session at Chequers, Prime Minister Attlee's country home. There the delegates discussed what would happen if Eire carried out her plan to leave the Commonwealth. The delegates were agreed that such a wayward sister would lose trade preferences and the right of her people to emigrate to other Dominions...
...said one, "has suffered from the long strain of affairs." Another reported that Mr. King's blood circulation was "causing concern." Tension ended when newsmen got more facts. Mr. King had been ordered to stay in bed for a rest for three or four weeks. But he was sitting up for visitors, discussing conference details with members of the Canadian delegation and getting his acting prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, to come over and sit in at Downing Street...