Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressman's defense last week was flashy but futile. He challenged officers assigned to sit on the court until the court was left with only one major and two warrant officers. He argued that the cops had no evidence that the accused were noisemakers, produced neighbors who said that the party had been orderly. But his defense character witnesses were no help: they were fellow ESPPs, who bristled the court by admitting under cross-examination that they hated the Army. At trial's end the three-man court deliberated six hours, found the ten defendants guilty, fined them...
During the third week in October, Briggs left messages in both of their letterboxes, requesting that they come to see him at eleven o'clock. They entered his office together, and he motioned for them to sit down. There was a letter on his desk, and he read it through at least twice before speaking to them. Finally he explained that he had received a letter from Greg's lawyer, the executor of his estate. During the past ten years Greg had worked steadily at what might prove to be the outstanding work of his career. It was substantially finished...
Vincent observed that "the Communists like to bomb the islands for psychological purposes" and "Chiang Kai-shek likes to sit there and be bombed for psychological purposes. We are caught in a sort of psychological warfare at considerable cost to the inhabitants...
...every turn, Spaak, 59-year-old former Socialist Premier of Belgium, met with suspicion, delay and doubletalk. "If the general public could sit in on these talks," declared one who had sat in, "they would be appalled at the haggling." "Barring war," declared Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, Greek-Turkish relations "could hardly be worse...
...curtain hog, she has been known to refuse to take a solo curtain call after the third act of Manon Lescaut because "it is the tenor's act." Her patience with her fans is apparently limitless: she will sit hour after hour backstage after exhausting performances, dutifully signing autographs ("Poor things," she murmurs, "poor things"). She still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier...