Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between the U.S. and China there is at present sad lack of contact and understanding. Communists and those they use . . . have succeeded in making Americans with some notable exceptions believe that China is only chaos, gloom, and doubt. ... So pervasive and persistent is that feeling that Americans prefer to sit back and wait, so far as China is concerned...
...although moved by such an experience, one can't overlook the presence of the upper classes in Germany; Americans like their music better when they can sit with a cigarette in one hand and a highball in the other. When I heard Walter Gieseking in Wiesbaden he was in the act of prostituting himself before such an audience. After ham-fisting his way through Debussey, he concluded (either as a culmination of his own bad taste or a reprimand to that of his listeners) with a beer garden style arrangement of Strauss waltz themes...
...books home. In time Miguel's friends visited the Velascos and, in the ceremonial Mexican fashion, argued that he was a fine boy, with a good reputation and good prospects. After due investigation, he became her novio oficial, with the right to come to dinner occasionally, to sit in the sala afterwards with Beatriz (and parents), and talk of serious things. In 1931 they were married...
Back in the racoon-skin days, admiring Harvardians with time on their hands used to sit in the stands all night, watching the proceedings. When the gals said they appreciated this attention but felt a little like goldfish as a result of it, the HAA stepped in and "restricted the area...
...annals of success. When A.T. & T. got out of radio, Mark went with young NBC, quickly became a vice president. "I never could understand," he says, "why they didn't make me president." When the Blue struck out for itself, Mark made the grade. "Now," he grins, "I sit back and let the boys run the show...