Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...
...older brothers, including Dwight, then almost nine, were those imposed by duty and family. Milton was a sore disappointment to David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower, who yearned for a daughter. "My father was sorry he never had a girl," recalls brother Earl. "He used to sit on our front porch and make friends with every little girl that came by. I know he was miserable because Milton wasn't a little girl...
...British auto racer, first light-car driver (in a souped-up MG) to crack 200 m.p.h., holder at his death of four international records; in Eastbourne, England. "To cut wind resistance, I drive on my stomach," said Goldie Gardner. "A poor chap in an American hot rod has to sit upright-frightfully drafty." Flat out, Gardner, at a youthful 61, set 16 records in one day on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1951, 21 more (in one week) the next year...
...THROUGH JULY. President Eisenhower invited the Kremlin to send a delegation of U.S.S.R. scientists to sit down with U.S. and British scientists in Geneva for a joint study on test detection. The Kremlin accepted, then tried to back out. Finally, when the U.S. said its scientists would show up at Geneva with or without the Soviet representatives, the U.S.S.R. okayed the talks, sent Communist scientists to the conference room...
...from the unsuccessful libel suit brought by Harold Laski against the paper that accused him of advocating violent revolution to the treason trial of Klaus Fuchs and the sensational cases of the "Chalk Pit Murder" and the "Vampire," he soon became known as the "Tiger." Green young barristers would sit up all night polishing their briefs before daring to appear before him in the morning and risk hearing him say, "Let's skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials of knighthood and honor, knew what...