Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have a Great White Father who promises plenty for all and work for none...
...city deserted by power, prosperity and purpose. At Tempelhof airport, where 15 big airlift transports landed every hour night & day, a few senile C-47s snooze in the autumn sunlight. On the grass between the runways, once jammed with quartermaster trucks and mobile canteens for hungry flyers, there sit stacks...
...again as a Laborite. This is too much for the family's fiercely Tory butler, who stands against Tony and wins the election. But it is one thing, of course, for a butler of the old school to stand in such circumstances, and quite another for him to sit...
...notice appeared calling on instrumentalists to try out for "a band to play at football games." It was the fall of 1919--one year after the first war to end all wars. They played--45 men--most of them former army bandsmen. They sat right where the band will sit today, section 35. There's no record of how well they played, but perhaps that's all the better...
Three Times & In. Usually the date is from M.I.T. or Harvard ("practically at our doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...