Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sit with Anybody...
...Last year, we assigned seats by Houses, all in one act, because we thought that students would want to sit with their friends in the Houses," Bingham explained yesterday. "After the first few weeks here, most students found other spectator-companions and would turn in their singles for doubles, which were in a much poorer location...
...strategy was clear. Up till now he had been able to sit quietly in the wings at Albany, while congressional rivals and free-speaking Harold Stassen performed before a critical audience. But now it was time to start moving. Dewey needed a blitz win on an early ballot. On every successive vote the chances of a deadlock with someone like Bob Taft would increase the danger of a dark horse...
...penitents can make themselves less tedious to priests:* 1) don't adorn the tale ("Not a few people think that they will be wasting the priest's time, as well as disappointing the poor man, if they are unable to tell him something that will make him sit up and whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn't you?"; 4) "It is bad manners not to listen to the priest...
...though he might sit in back of a mere diplomat, Dom Pedro understood something of kingship. Before he left Rome there was one more snapshot he wanted taken. It concerned another king, temporarily defeated but never humbled. Pedro directed his taxi to the spot in Rome where Mussolini had set up the golden statue of the Lion of Judah, captured at Addis Ababa. Now the statue was safely back in Africa in Haile Selassie's keeping. The spot in Rome was empty. King Pedro turned to his photographers. "Photograph that for me," he commanded...