Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of this nation made a very serious decision last November," shouted Long. "They did not expect us to simply sit here and vote for the Eisenhower program . . . However, we are told when we consider these bills that in order to make the bills vetoproof, we must pare them down ... to the point where they have about one-quarter of the significance we intended. As a result the bills are 90% Eisenhower bills and 10% Democratic amendments...
...University Restaurant for ten years, does most of his fishing in a 30-foot Pacemaker cabin cruiser, but caught the marlin in another boat. A good thing it was, too, because the fish's beak went through the side of the ship's hull. Three men had to sit on the marlin to keep it down...
...Beat. In Waterloo, Ont., a housewife was politely turned down when she asked for a policeman to baby-sit at her home while she went to the police station to pay a parking fine...
...white man has ever been executed in Florida for raping a Negro woman. But since 1925, Florida has executed 37 Negroes found guilty of raping white women; four others now sit in the death house, awaiting the electric chair...
...every note fully etched, or rasp out a low, "dirty" tone while keeping the melody under rigid control, or punch out a bright, high note and linger over it with a heavy vibrato. The arrangements are so simple that the customers, as Chicago Disk Jockey Marty Faye notes, "can sit at a table and chat and still enjoy Jonah...