Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Beulah needed, Adela decided, was her mother: "Someone who could say to her, 'Louise . . . you ought not to sit there in a bright, striped blue-green dress with your arms bare to the shoulder . . . your arms aren't your best point . . . they look too strong...
...kind of speech that would sit well on diehard Republican stomachs. Even some Stassen supporters thought he might be talking too much, too early. But both agreed that, without the sounding board of elective office, it was his only way of keeping in the battle area, that he had a long stern-chase ahead if he were ever to get within shooting distance of Tom Dewey. As Harold Stassen started off this week on a political pilgrimage into Texas, they were also agreed with Stassen himself that he could not yet be discounted as just another also...
...telling his intimates in his soldier's way last week that the menace to Greece and Turkey was pretty much like the Battle of the Bulge. You had to rush up reinforcements (in this case $400 million) "to straighten the line, but you didn't sit down thereafter and wait for another bulge to happen. George Marshall was trying, like a good campaigner, to get the initiative...
...representation (probably 30 out of 136 seats) in the Majlis. Priority item on their program: to scuttle the Russian oil concession. When the election finally ended, Gavam could submit the Russian oil agreement with certain knowledge that it would be strongly opposed-which will suit him fine. He could sit back, finger his jade beads and chuckle-unless the neighbors across his northern border turned the heat on again...
...Appellate Court in Albany when a friend asked him to help out with a new radio program of book reviews. Amateur Stone thought the idea of "just talking for 15 minutes" over Albany's 250-watt WABY sounded dull. Instead, he suggested that a group of people sit around and discuss books. One day Stone asked visiting Author Jan Struther, then lecturing in Albany, if she would join in the discussion of Mrs. Miniver. She did, the program clicked, and Variety gave it a good review...