Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many another quarter, however, Georgy was doing fine. Time and again he had his picture taken grinning from ear to ear amid a sea of female workers. At an official dinner one night, he commandeered one of the entertainers, pretty, blonde Xylophonist Pauline Joy, and invited her to sit beside him. As Malenkov beamed and flashbulbs popped, Pauline in her tights banged out a selection of Russian folk tunes. After a couple of encores, the courtly Malenkov sent a waiter out to buy her "a large box of chocolates...
...whose rhapsodic verse, mystically urging man to free his spirit from the pull of Earth, appealed to Barlach's own yearnings. Even more important was a two-month trip to southern Russia, where Barlach, on first sighting the sturdy peasant figures against the limitless perspective, exclaimed: "Donnerwetter! There sit bronzes...
...superior food bakes an indirect but most valuable contribution: the dining hall is not a place to be fled as soon as the worm is pacified, with the result that tutors, resident and otherwise, are usually present and usually sit in on lengthy conversations with members of the House...
...simple rule, established long ago by Master Gordon M. Fair, has prompted perhaps the most important advantage of Dunster. The rule is that "No more than two tutors can sit at a dining hall table"; the result is that tutors join students for meals rather than eat together...
Under distinctive chandeliers, housemembers eat food supplied from the central kitchen. Some few form cliques, but by the end of the sophomore year, most people mix at the tables no matter what their previous background. Tutors are friendly during meals but do not make a special effort to sit with students. Traditionally, Master Perkins holds High Table every Monday evening. Then about a dozen seniors eat with tutors and other guests in the scholarly ranks on a raised platform at one end of the dining hall...