Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, the week's cover subject being determined generally by that week's news, there was hardly time to ask him to sit for his portrait (in the case of our World War II enemies, for instance, it was obviously impossible...
...labor expert for U.S. Rubber Co., ten years later took over as the company's director of labor relations. As a onetime member of NRA, the National Defense Mediation Board, the old NWLB, he knows bureau procedure. His formula, which thus far has been unusually successful: moderation, cooperation, sit down and talk it over...
...Attlee slipped in, scarcely noticed. Ernest Bevin, for one, did not see him. Bevin was on his feet answering a foreign policy question. Attlee slid down the bench just in time to avoid his Foreign Secretary's 240-lb. bulk as Bevin took a pace back, prepared to sit down...
Also on the speaker's platform sat about 50 of Oxfordshire's leading Tories-solid, well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket green, was a roped enclosure with some 200 chairs. There sat the remainder of the party committeemen, their families, and others of the locally privileged...
...committee chosen from those in attendance is to form another committee, composed of University and non-University groups to attempt to induce the Administration to permit use of the Yard for a Wallace rally (3) This sub-committee of the original group will help select the persons who will sit on the platform with Mr. Wallace...