Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to friends in San Francisco, Bernard Baruch found a park bench to sit on, newsmen to talk to, and a thought for the week: "The people of the United States had better do some tall thinking. Too many people are talking...
...Chairs. Nobody could quarrel with Billy's replacements, if they could be had. "To the left of the chairman sits Arturo Toscanini . . . [then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
...after one school concert. He studied medicine, got his first job in 1929 as house surgeon in London's St. George Hospital. Meanwhile he had taught himself music theory, joined an amateur orchestra for summer tours in Europe. At Salzburg, he once persuaded Bruno Walter to let him sit in his orchestra, to study Walter's ways...
...private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the Five-Flowered Phoenix ... If this ridiculous foreign project [DDT spraying] is carried out, it will mean the end of all Peiping's goldfish. Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails? The very thought of these beautiful water creatures turning on their backs and floating to the surface fills my heart with deepest gloom." The health department yielded. The air-spray project, it announced...
...went off without a hitch, the reason was that the army and police had rounded up everyone able to cause trouble. Some suspects had been dragged off to jail to sit out the ceremonies; many another had been told to stay out of Asuncion for a while. But the really dangerous enemies of the regime had long ago gone underground, or been sent to Asuncion's red-walled prison or to the isolation of the Pena Hermosa concentration camp in the steaming Chaco...