Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York politics during Tammany's dog days, spotted De Sapio as a comer. Says Julie McArdle, who was Flynn's secretary for 20 years and is now De Sapio's: "I remember Mr. Flynn saying Mr. De Sapio was the only Tammany leader he could sit down with since Mr. Murphy, and not have to talk out of the side of his mouth.'' Flynn advised De Sapio, brought him along, and was delighted to see him made leader of Manhattan, the borough just south of Flynn's Bronx...
Here Bulganin, dressed in a pale grey summer suit, drew back slightly from the carved oak podium. In the box behind him, where sit the top committeemen from whom others take their cue, someone laughed. Others joined, and a gale of laughter swept through the white and gold chamber...
...Team. On the bench, ruminating over a cud of tobacco, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Catcher Campanella is the picture of tranquillity. He never makes an unnecessary move. Take away the uniform, and he would look for all the world like a displaced Buddha in calm contemplation. But the fans sit up when he waddles to his place behind the plate. A remarkable transformation takes place: the somnolent bulk becomes a quick and agile athlete. After he has strapped on the "tools of ignorance,"* hunkered down in the close confines of the modern catcher's box, he is the heart...
...Campfirology, in which worshipers sit cross-legged in a circle (symbol of eternity) and gaze into the fire (symbol of transitoriness) and sing 'Vive la Compagnie' (symbol of fellowship...
...feel like putting a rifle together as ordered. His admission: "I can't live with a lot of people. They disgust me and I just feel like taking off." Private L.'s only goal seemed to be solitude; he had no dates, and even drank to "sit by myself and just drink and think." An I-2 tagged as "emotionally immature, aggressive," Private L. fully expected that he would get into trouble again when he returned to duty. Grant agreed...