Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back of the theory of the cheering section lies a deep-rooted feeling that Harvard men deserve better seats than visiting females, and that anyone preferring to sit a girl should share the misery of her view of the game. Arguments that an all-male section cheers louder or presents a solid, threatening front to the opposition are also frequently used...
...Great Tragedy." Said Richards: "The great tragedy is that the United States story is not getting out. We sit over here and argue about whether we'll spend eight or 18 millions to present our side of the case. In France, the Communists got all the best newspapers after liberation, and the biggest allotment of newsprint. We ship in wheat and not a word of it gets in the paper. Russia sends in a boatload of wheat, makes the French transport it and pay for it in American dollars, and you'd think it was the millennium from...
...week's end, the average restaurant operator was developing ulcers, anxiety and severe tension. Most of them piously -and some even happily-guaranteed compliance. Hollywood's phony prince, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff (who sometimes allows his bulldog to sit up at the table with him and eat meat), said: "I will do anything to avoid the horrors of rationing." Some did it glumly. Manhattan's famed steak house, Gallagher's, closed on Tuesday, ran a newspaper ad which read:, "No Steaks, No Gallagher's." But in most cases it was not quite that simple...
When scouts--they usually work in pairs--go to a game they sit in seats provided by the other team (coaches scouting Harvard sit on the 45-yard line in the colonnade) and take down as many plays and defensive formations of the future opponent as they can. "We also look for individual traits," Chief adds, "such as a guard that charges high or a reckless...
Governor Bradford recently refused to support the plaque in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti on the grounds that there was no point in "stirring up the bitter passions and prejudices of twenty years ago." Unfortunately the old passions and prejudices need no stirring up. They sit in on sessions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and are the driving force behind the present campaign of loyalty checks; it is passion arising from prejudice that has purged individuals from private jobs and caused colleges to ban student leftist organizations...