Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Wilson (see below), Admiral Arthur Radford and Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother. On the way to the hospital, Press Secretary James Hagerty briefed Wilson and Radford on proper bedside manners. Yes, it was perfectly all right to shake hands with the President. They should try to sit at the foot of the bed so that Ike could see them without moving his body. Their meeting should last no longer than 25 minutes, even though the President, as usual, would be talking briskly and edging for more time...
...always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself. You know, ones who'll get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell...
...well-rested players will help bolster the Crimson forward wall. Metropouios will be back in his regular right guard slot, where he played before a muscle pull forced him to sit out the Crimson and Dartmouth games. And the first sophomore to start for the varsity this fall, Marv Labovits, will replace Jan Meyer, out with a pulled muscle, at center...
...should like to comment on what seems to me to be a lack of responsibility on the part of the Harvard cheerleaders. At the Dartmouth game the Band had to sit at one end of the stands where it was practically impossible for the cheering section to figure out what song they were playing. The cheerleaders, as usual, made a weak effort to lead singing by waving their arms half-heartedly. They gave no indication of what we were supposed to be singing...
...Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, the original Sherlock Holmes. As a medical student, Author Conan Doyle listened in awe as the astonishing Dr. Bell "would sit in his receiving room, with a face like a red Indian, and diagnose people as they came in before they even opened their mouths." Deduction, based on observation of trifles, was Bell's method. "Most men," he said drily, "have ... a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth." But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe...