Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system, causing the Association to hide envelopes. In defense of this action the H.A.A. cites its recent (unwilling) concession to the downtrodden, its belated permission for WHRB to broadcast football games. Everyone knows, however, that this is merely a delaying tactic. Midway through the season as the heard sit in their cups, quietly listening to the game, a rapacious snarl will interrupt their befogged meditations, and a glib WHRB will broadcast no more...
...Council unanimously approved the selection of sophomore class representative Merom Brachman '58 of Lowell House "to sit with [the Hygiene Department's] Chiefs of Services once each months to consider those cases where the decision of the insurance company does not meet with approval of the student who has presented . . . claims...
Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...
...then she may sit down with a blues-loving customer and talk; her stories pack almost as much wallop as her songs. When she was six or seven in New Orleans, Lizzie recalls, she started to sing with the band jointly run by Kid Ory and King Oliver - songs with words like Don't do that dance, I tell you, Sadie That's no dance for a lady...
Each student is entitled to one free ticket and another on payment of $2.50. Up to ten students may apply to sit as a group by fastening their envelopes together. Tickets will be returned to students at dinner Thursday or lunch Friday...