Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week, with the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's cable still not answered, Champion Pauline Betz was outlawed from amateur tennis. "I'm not going to sit in a corner and cry about this," she said. But an hour later, at a sidewalk café on the Champs Elyseés, her little glass of jus de fruits was still untouched in front of her and Pauline seemed undecided what...
...Cleveland's suburban Shaker Heights. Its assets included a big-league style ballpark, three football fields, 13 tennis courts, a quarter-mile track. Peters used to pitch on the faculty team himself, until a few years ago could beat the school's ace tennists, still does daily sit...
...countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session's end, eleven others had joined...
...Welfare Conference, half-seriously observed that the trouble with UNESCO was too much agreement. Suggested the Monsignor: "If we could get a real hot fight going in UNESCO-between the natural scientists and the philosophers, say, or even about whether UNESCO is a good idea at all-people would sit...
...gentle Chaos, let me sit and dream The lost delights of your reviled regime. One pressed a switch and lo! The Light was found (Today you would be fined ?100). Water and Gas obeyed the humblest hand, Though greedy Tories still controlled the land. Coal, too, almost like water, used to flow, A commonplace and not a curio. Coal, Chaos, was as plentiful as hay: We had so much we sent the stuff away! The Railways, not less rapid than they are, But much more regular, went just as far. The Ships, with small assistance from the State, Sailed round...