Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apart from the usual stiffness a 52 kilometer ride-on a giant ex-German cavalry horse-can bring on an amateur horsewoman, I seemed O.K. the next day. Then I made a perilous four-hour jeep ride with the American officer-observer, after which I could no longer walk, sit or breathe...
...nonconformist Belgian family who felt, in the words of a friend, that they were born to lead Belgium. His maternal grandfather, Paul Janson, and his uncle, Paul Emile Janson, were great Liberal leaders; his father was a well-known playwright; his mother, a Socialist, was the first woman to sit in Belgium's Parliament. At 75, white-haired, good-humored Senator Spaak listens proudly to the speeches of her son, to whom she refers as "the Minister...
...wonder the government regarded Henry as "an unsafe man" and consistently refused to promote him beyond a certain point. Much wonder that he was able to say, "When I sit in the garden in the cool of the evening ... I feel as if I never could go home. India has burnt itself into me and I dread the cold and wet country of my birth...
...valuable proctor is the discreet proctor, who remains wary but unobtrusive. He will preferably sit silently in some advantageous spot, or if he must walk, proceed on egg-shells, like a friendly phantom. He will also refrain from stage whispers with his colleagues. Indeed, the prevalence of inter-proctor communication has raised doubts that the College needs so many of these hirelings. But assuming that all proctors are necessary, it is hardly too much to ask that they be carefully instructed to act like guardian angels, instead of hotel detectives...
...said right now that the new Dickens movie, "Nicholas Nickleby," is not nearly so good as its exciting predecessor, "Great Expectations." That is not to say that it isn't worth going to see; it will be rewarding to Dickens devotees and to those who are willing to sit through ninety minutes of almost incessant gloom and confusion, through which only glimpses of the fine acting and the story can be dimly seen...