Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lovey wrote for only half an hour a day ("It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing") and could never be photographed in the act of some domestic chore because she never did a chore, not even answer the phone. "What is known as work," she said firmly, "is something that I cannot...
Things are quite cooperative once you let them in on what all the fuss is about . . . which is why it is a good idea to sit down and have a long talk with the collar button the day you first...
Every few years we go to a large number of TIME-subscribing families and ask you, please, to "sit for your portraits." We made one such survey in 1943 - but we know there have been a lot of changes since then. For example, the average TIME reader today is a little younger than the average TIME reader of five years ago (this is mostly because a lot of veterans are now reading TIME; men who got to know and like TIME overseas). And of course the average income of the TIME reader has gone up (today it is over...
Could anything be done about it? Something could be; but probably nothing would be. Republicans were determined to sit tight while accusing the President of failing to use the anti-inflation powers he already had. The President's own program was a far cry from his fighting speech in Philadelphia. In the frigid atmosphere of Capitol Hill, his subdued tones and cautious suggestions were like the speech of a small boy who is ordered to repeat in court the bold words he had used in the alley...
There were many in Japan who claimed they had heard the noise or knew a friend who had, but to be really sure a poet had to go by dawn to the side of a Tokyo swamp and sit for three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...