Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd summoned to London Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, and swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios, whom the British exiled from Cyprus three years ago on charges of encouraging violence. This week the prelate whom the British press called a terrorist will sit down with Selwyn Lloyd...
Amid the general shock, some novices made matters worse by loud self-justification (in itself an unZen act). Wailed one: "When we sit long hours in meditation, the blood tends to collect around our loins. It's natural for us to seek outlets." That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets...
Intercollegiate athletics will be eliminated in favor of "giving sports back to the students." It is ridiculous, Stoke explained, "for thousands of students to sit and watch 22 men play football." New College will aim for active intramural competition...
...1930s and 1940s, Rufus Stanley ("The Coach") Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the burliest (230 Lbs.) sports writers and editors in the business, won a reputation as one of the best. When not engaged in playful mayhem-one favorite game of his was to sit across the table from some Spartan friend, trading shin kicks and guzzling highballs to numb the pain-he was busy beefing up the Trib's sports section, with a canny eye for talent. It was Coach Woodward who hired Sports Columnist Red Smith away from the Philadelphia Record...
When the Fives-Lille-Cail Co. near Lille, France, found its metal business falling short of expectations, it sent out immediate-dismissal notices to 527 employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...