Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans are prone to think of Europe resisting Communism like a hungry man resisting the temptation to steal: all he has to do is sit tight and remember what his parents taught...
Actually all Council meetings are upon in nature, as men interested in various topics on the agenda are invited to sit in on the discussions However, a clause in the Council's now constitution requires one open meeting per tern, and tonight all are urged to take part in the discussion and bring up questions from the floor. The meeting has been cut to an hour but still constitutes the Council's regular weekly session...
...occupied. Back in 1933, the year he graduated from Boston College with his A.B. in Philosophy, he began the battle of the books in Newton. Public Library. Things are usually uneventful for a small town librarian, but McNiff never gave them time to get that way. Not content to sit in a branch library and philosophize, he took courses at Columbia and in 1940 was awarded a B.S. in library science. In the meantime he had earned a promotion to head of the cataloging department for the whole Newton system. But he still was unsatisfied, and in 1942 he abandoned...
...Jesus who has told the doctor and his wife to come to the Ogowe, and that white people in Europe give them money to live here and cure the sick Negroes. The African sun is shining through the coffee bushes into the dark shed; but we, black and white, sit side by side and feel that we know by experience the meaning of the words, 'And all ye are brethren...
...noon on the range, Bob Kleberg and the vaqueros sit down in a range shack, where a freshly killed calf has been barbecued, or gather at the chuck wagon for smoke-tanged frijoles, slabs of pork, biting hot wild peppers, bread baked in dutch ovens over wood coals, coffee and molasses (eaten with the meat...