Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trumbull's mortal remains lie only 30 feet from where I now sit. His ghost will haunt us both unless credit is given where it is due. Tell the world the visual record of The Battle of Princeton by General Washington's aide-de-camp is at Yale...
...years of proximity to naval pomp and naval braid caused any alteration of his habits. He ate lunch daily in the Navy Building cafeteria, after standing in a line of clerks and stenographers and carrying his own tray to a table. Once, when motion picture cameramen asked him to sit down and write something while they photographed him, he pulled out a pen, thoughtfully scribbled "This is hell. . . this is hell. . . this is hell...
...unduly concerned . . . the strike was not caused by legitimate grievances but by agitators." Immediately after the meeting drastic measures were taken to break the strike. Armed police descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout the land. Most of the Central Committee of the puny Communist Party, together...
...sit in the press box at all the football games for free...
...mumbling the classroom changes at the beginning of each term, although she occasionally wonders whether she is attending the Peripatetic School or Harvard University. With good grace she has given up Widener for the basement of Memorial Chapel, and for the most part she obeys the order to "sit in a lady-like manner" on the steps of that building. She ignores the vertical stares of Harvard veterans although she is tempted to retaliate in kind...