Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million American aid-to-Greece program is failing. If you sit around Athens, close your eyes to everything but the abundant food in de luxe restaurants, watch new American cars roll down the streets, look into shop windows filled with American canned goods, Italian woolens and Swiss watches, you can pretend it is not failing. But once you get outside Athens, you realize that the situation is the worst it has been since October 1944 when the Germans left. The Greek Government, the high command, the Army and the people are carrying out a sort of mass psychological "sitdown strike...
...Hollywood is a fisherman with an expensive rod," wrote Producer Dudley Nichols (Mourning Becomes Electro) in the New York Times, "and it will not sit all day and go bankrupt and bait its hook with what the fish don't want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...
Tomorrow's guests, Brooks explained, will sit together in sections 52 and 53 of the wooden stands. They will be shepherded by 40 leaders, including about 20 PBH volunteers. The boys range in age from...
...Rather Sit Here...
Splitting up into racially-mixed pairs or groups of four, the travelers would board busses and sent themselves well towards the front of the ear. The driver's attempt to put the Negroes in the Jim Crow rear seats was always met with a polite, "I'd rather sit here...