Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objected to the proponents' argument that Washington needs a stage that can accommodate ballet. Said Kirwan: "You have to chloroform the people to get 500 to look at a ballet. Don't let anybody kid you on that score. It takes a lot of good courage to sit and watch somebody go into a toe dance. I am like Oliver Wendell Holmes. He said, 'Give me burlesque...
...government offices, swarm the Middle East's biggest concentration of exiled terrorists and (depending on the point of view) troublemakers or patriots. In 1946 North African exiles set up the Committee for North African Liberation. The Egyptian government provided offices and funds for their support, had their representatives sit in on Arab League councils as advisers. Funds were raised, commandos recruited, trained and shipped off to the battlefronts...
...Mambo Italiano was turned out for Mitch Miller, who wanted a dialect mambo for Rose mary Clooney. Tina Marie was ordered by Perry Como, who "wanted a rhythm song." "It's a job and I do it," says Merrill. "I know that if I smoke enough cigarettes and sit long enough, something will come...
...Beer was still not satisfied. He wanted to sit at a desk. And so they moved. Silverstein explained the camera angles were not as good, but he was willing to give...
...quite so optimistic. Arthur D. Trottenburg, Operating Manager of Houses and Dormitories, said that so far this year plowing and heating expenses were not above last year's totals. But upon learning that more than a foot of snow would fall, he added, "Now we'll just have to sit on it and see what happens...