Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturdays work slows, and the city's center fills with men, women and children with pesos in their pockets. They mill through Sears, Roebuck, buying made-in-Mexico soap, blankets, toys and washing machines. They sit in chrome chairs along barbershop and beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening to the hum of electric clippers and dryers. Young wives come in fashionable maternity middy blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town...
...registered to "sit for exams" at the University of South Africa (Negroes aren't allowed in classes) and ran a rigorous schedule of teaching from 8 to 12:30 each morning, studying from then until 8:30, and taking the train back to his home 50 miles away every night...
Nearly every day in the Varsity Club a host of hungry athletes sit down to a regular training-table lunch. They are men whose sports are "in season"--that is, baseball-players in the spring, swimmers in the winter, football-men in the fall (these last get both lunch and dinner), and so forth. Financial support for this rather elaborate eating program comes from the funds appropriated by the Administration to the Athletic Department. The total expenditure may run well over $10,000 a year...
After five years at Harvard, Mrs. Pusey expresses only one regret. At Lawrence, where she worked extensively in the College's extracurricular activities, Mrs. Pusey could sit at her kitchen window and greet any student who passed--by his first name. Here, she has been able to know only a handful of undergraduates, and says that seeing students "is the thing I miss most...
Several weeks later, when an American in Moscow asked the peasant to sit on the top of the Statue of Liberty watching for crises in capitalism, the latter replied, "I would never give up a permanent job for a temporary...