Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fund for the Republic, the National Labor Relations Board, the United States guided missile program, the Administration's farm policy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Eisenhower and a cherished McCarthy enemy, Harold Stassen, all came in for their share of criticism, but somehow the public and the press failed to sit up and take notice as they had done only a few months before. With his committee chairmanship gone in the Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations; he has never been much disposed to provide newspaper copy for another...
EDWARD R. MURROW: Good evening. This is See It Now . . . Tonight, "The Farm ProblemA Crisis of Abundance." This is the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson [camera swings to a bespectacled Mr. Benson'], who is ... going to sit here and watch this program with us and take an occasional note...
...Patterson himself chuckles: "Doug's been a salesman all his life. I've been a lawyer-a professional man. It's Doug's business to go out and make people like him. The very ethics of a professional man, you know, dictate that he should sit in his office and wait for people to come to him, whether he's doing any business or not." But Patterson also was able to go out and make people like him: in 1954, while Democrat Richard Neuberger was winning his Senate seat by 2,462 votes, Republican Patterson...
Ranging Demands. Soon a steady stream of Gruenthergrams-paper slips bearing orders, queries or demands-is rocketing from his desk. In the office outside few staffers bother to sit down, on the theory that nobody can get off fast enough from a sitting start when a Gruenthergram comes sizzling out of the commanding general's office. The Gruenthergrams range as far and wide as the general's far-ranging mind. Samples: "Please investigate the scratching and meows on the roof." "It seems to me that about a year ago I sent to G-2 a study dealing with...
...least of the boy-wonder's wonders was his disposition. He could sit at the harpsichord astonishing strangers with his virtuosity and the mature expression of his face-then, suddenly, a favorite cat would come in, and he was off his chair chasing it like any other boy. When he slipped on the floor at Schönbrunn and was helped to his feet by a seven-year-old princess named Marie Antoinette, he thanked her thus: "You are good, and when I grow up I will marry...