Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then you can board a West Point bus in the Greyhound terminal on Forty- Fourth st, at 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., or 12:15 p.m. tomorrow. Or you can wait until 2:30 a.m. tomorrow morning before leaving Boston, sit up all night, and connect with the 11:15 a.m. bus from New York...
Will the British Cook? A good many U.S. and British policymakers were reluctant to base a European defense system on France. Said one British diplomat in Paris: "The Communists or their informers sit in every French ministry. What can you tell them, I ask you? Any military secret we reveal will be in Moscow in 15 minutes...
...chosen our church, and she must remain." Faith took up residence in his rectory. Years of halcyon days followed when Faith would recline in proprietary ease in St. Augustine's carpeted pews, rubbing languorously against the ankles of parishioners dropping in for midday prayer. At services she would sit in quiet dignity at the rector's feet...
...streamlined look of the new models had not been accomplished without certain annoying disadvantages. Some roofs were so low that a medium-sized man had to take off his hat to sit down-a phenomenon which caused Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy to dash off a critical cartoon for the benefit of the Society of Automotive Engineers...
...with Ty Cobb, after DiMaggio's first year with the Yankees. Cobb told him that a good outfielder was crazy to spend 15 minutes a day shagging fly balls once he got in shape: "Don't spend your hitting energy chasing flies. Grab a few and then sit down in a cool, shady spot." DiMag has been conserving his energy ever since. He even seems to conserve it on the playing field...