Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sit still when something needed fixing up, he organized the Automotive Safety Foundation to do something about U.S. traffic deaths. In 1942 he presided at the birth of the Committee for Economic Development, a group of businessmen and economists organized to do something about keeping the U.S. economy up to its wartime Henning level and providing jobs...
...White House balcony (now complete except for final painting). If he sat on it every night all summer, and every warm night in May, she told a group of Republican women, it would cost the taxpayers $150 a night. "I should think he wouldn't want to sit on it," she added, "especially since it faces South. But perhaps he will install a swing and swing from right to left, and that way he will feel natural...
...City's boss. His position is unique in big-town journalism and politics. He never gives an order, has asked only one favor of the city administration in eight years (one of "the Senator's" friends needed a job). His great power is the Star. He can sit back, dictate an editorial or work up a story that will get the things done. Big Roy is the easiest man to see in town. To his desk every day come a steady stream of citizens to tell him their troubles and plans-everything from politics to church benefits...
...YORK, April 9 Locked-out Harvard Club employees here asked today that President Conant choose or sit on as arbitration panel of three University alumni to settle the three-week-old dispute...
Though the meeting is titled the Seven College Conference and the so-called "Big Seven" of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley will be represented, a bevy of delegates from Sweet Briar have also been invited to sit...