Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual performance of Richard Graves, last year's unsuccessful nominee for governor of California. Soon after the dinner began, Graves breezed in through a side door. When the crowd applauded, Graves beamed, nodded, waved, and proceeded to the head table, where he had not been invited to sit. He made his way down its length, shaking each and every right hand, until, near the end of his tour, he slipped, tried desperately to balance himself, failed, and jammed his arm through a Venetian blind. Then he exited and was not seen again...
...song of biology as stirringly as The Living Desert, but it is still one of the best movies ever made about Africa. With able use of the telephoto lens, along with plenty of patient scrounging around in the underbrush, Cameraman Alfred Milotte and his wife Elma have managed to sit the moviegoer a little nearer front and center than he has ever sat before at the greatest wild animal show on earth. The best bits...
...takes scholars to move in this maze-and Thurgood Marshall is a sound, conscientious, imaginative legal scholar, although by no means the best of his day. Technical skill is not all a U.S. constitutional lawyer needs. The job is to apply the Constitution to life, which will not sit still. For example, in the mid-20th century it became a fact of life that millions of U.S. Negroes could not feel themselves clothed in the minimum dignity of men as long as they suffered under certain legal disabilities. And millions of Southern whites, with an intensity perhaps equal to that...
...Reno, nearly 30,000 airmen have gone through a course in which some of the ugliest Communist methods of handling prisoners are followed. Herded behind barbed wire for a 36-hour interrogation period, the "prisoners" are subjected to electrical shocks, crammed into an upright box where they can neither sit nor stand, forced to stand shoulder deep in water for hours of darkness, fed a mixture of raw spinach and uncooked spaghetti, made to stand naked before their captors, and to listen to slanderous talk about their wives...
...burned alive in the German concentration camps . . . Majdanek . . . Oswiecim . . . Kharkov." It rolled out like a litany. "Smolensk . . . Krasnodar . . . Lvov." The 9,626 imprisoned Germans were paying for those crimes, said Bulganin. If they were released at all, it could only be through negotiations in which Adenauer would have to sit down with the East German Communists...