Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expert Witness. The Government's case was argued briefly by young (34), handsome John Sonnett. Once he caused Lewis' lawyers to sit up straight. He quoted what Lewis himself had said about the Krug-Lewis contract, under which the miners had gone back to work after last spring's 59-day strike. Posing with Krug for the newsreels, John had proclaimed: "It settles for the period of Government operation all the questions at issue." Wasn't Lewis going back on that statement when he demanded in October that the Government discuss a new contract-and when...
...wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited," said the March Hare. "Your hair wants cutting" said the Hatter...
...intervention in the Iran issue in the Security Council. Nervous aids urged Lie to answer the radio pundits, but he merely grinned: "These commentators, they certainly are bad fellows. You know, one of them said Ed Stettinius was the handsomest man at the Security Council table-where I sit too. You can imagine the effect that kind of talk had on my family." Lie has iron nerves, can go to bed at the end of a troubled day with a child's placidity and (reports a friend) the pragmatic exclamation: "I have done all I can-now I might...
...country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also, he had sampled civilization's delights and now wanted to sit by a stove...
...sacrifices; the twelfth day favors the digging of graves, the making of coffins, and the burial of the dead. On the night of Nov. 11, 36 black-robed Taoist priests gathered in the compound of Peiping's ancient and beautiful Paiyunkuan (White Cloud temple). They had come to sit in judgment, and to propitiate the Taoist gods...