Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 1,350 delegates from Communist Parties in 55 countries assembled in Moscow's Great Kremlin Palace to sit on straight wooden seats through long hours of speeches, to acquiesce in what they were told, and to applaud methodically...
...miles in his first nine months than Einaudi did in seven years. In contrast to Einaudi, he accepts petitions, receives delegations, summons government ministers to discuss their actions. "I firmly believe that the head of state must stimulate and encourage the actions of government," he says, and intends to sit as "custodian of the constitution." He believes it is his duty as President to have convictions and to express them...
...gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped in scores of jungle outposts, and even the Iquitos headquarters was isolated from Lima by 700 miles of mountains and jungles. Merino's strategy obviously was to sit tight, with an impressive force-in-being that other garrison commanders all over Peru might decide to join. When and if rebels outnumbered loyalists, Odria would fall...
...Control Engineering, W. G. Rowell of Scully Signal Co. and A. B. Van Rennes of M.I.T. describe a method that they have invented for "watching the watchman." The monitor as usual watches all operations of the machine, but when everything is going well, it does not merely sit back and give a "safe" signal. Instead it gives a rapid alternation of safe and unsafe signals. Unless this alternation continues, proving that the monitor is alert and on the job, the machine will shut itself off. If any part of the machine fails (including its readiness to shut itself...
...Ravel. These are a kind of musical sandwich, with a lovely lyrical piece between two witty, ironic and bitter-sweet choral songs. The performances were again excellent. If Woodworth can train his full choruses as well as he has trained the smaller groups, audiences will really have to sit up this spring and summer...