Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finer looking. "My sister-in-law wasn't unfriendly," she explained. "Her coat is more beautiful than mine, and . . . hers is female, mine. male. Now I hate mine and I'm going to have it cut up for lining a cloth coat so's I can sit...
News from the battlegrounds of peace will continue to be calamitous as long as the anti-Communist powers sit back waiting for the next Communist move. Marshall created a crisis for the Russians when they had to decide last summer whether they would take part in the ERP meeting in Paris. They didn't, but it was a bitter pill for their satellites to swallow...
...events 1) in the order in which they occur; 2) in the form in which an observer might have seen them-so that readers can imagine themselves on the scene. A TIME story must be completely organized from beginning to end; it must go from nowhere to somewhere and sit down when it arrives...
...Mayflower, there was one empty table. Although South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston, a coon-shouting white-supremacy man, had bought ten tickets, he and his guests stayed away, he said, because his wife feared that she might have to sit next to a "Nigra." (There were three Negroes at the dinner; they sat at one table-in the rear.) Senator Johnston sent an emissary to make sure that nobody else sat at his table. He ate dinner at home, helped his wife dish up the vittles, and called in photographers to record the touching scene...
...would the U.S. act to insure the success of partition? That all-important question was left unanswered. Delegate Austin's orders were simply to sit tight, let others talk, and speak his piece when called...