Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reward was a salute to Minnesota Democrats and to millions of women.. It was expected to sit well with the Danes; the new Ambassador had manners, dignity, quiet but expensive clothes and, best of all, a Scandinavian name. It got India Edwards, chief of Democratic women's activities, out of Harry Truman's hair, at least temporarily. And it made Mrs. Anderson happy...
Said Langer: "I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to sit while making my speech." There was no objection, and he sat. He crossed his legs, tilted back in his chair, laughed at his own attempts at wit, providing a spectacle without parallel in senatorial history. It was a shabby show...
...this sit a few key men in the Occupation. Everyone wonders when they are going to leave. The Austrians don't want them, yet fear the Russians if the Americans depart. They wonder if American food with them. But Austria has found ways before, so perhaps the situation is not so serious as it seems...
...price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only sit back and wait for an adjournment-hungry Congress to battle...
This disunity can be funny just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...