Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses to sit in it. "It's furniture for old people," he snorts...
Licking Secrecy. Biggest obstacle: "military security." Oak Ridge scientists complain that many atomic "secrets" are already out, that others still jealously held have no military importance. Some argue that if secrecy is continued too long, the U.S. may sit back, cocky and self-assured, while other nations catch up and forge ahead. Their recommendation: release all secrets not strictly military. Then U.S. industry, informed and excited, could climb on the atomic bandwagon and gain an unchallengeable lead, as it has in auto manufacturing...
...result of the Nűrnberg trial has been a well-deserved fate for a group of evil men . . . yet the force of the condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this...
...they come halfway to your neck? On account of you, I haven't been able to buy a dress long enough to come below my knees since the war started. I'm no bobbysoxer. ... I bought a suit that fits perfectly except that I can't sit down without hiking the skirt...
...Limits the number of committees a Congressman may sit...