Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bathroom without a bodyguard." The rebels were also disappointed in the inactivity of Mohammed Hatta (who in the midst of last week's maneuvering was discovered quietly lecturing on Islamic history at the University of Indonesia). "Hatta is the undertaker," said Sjafruddin bitterly. "He'll sit quietly while the corpse dies, then conduct a post-mortem...
...which knows him in the beard that he grew for his current stage role, Visitor Ustinov is most familiar as wit and mimic in his appearances on the Jack Paar Show, but he complains: "All those interruptions [for commercials] while you sit there trying to be Voltaire-Voltaire wouldn't stand for it." He is particularly fascinated by U.S. giveaways, "where they meter the suffering that people have had, and the one with the saddest life gets the refrigerator. It's like watching a medieval morality play with all the vices paraded before you-avarice, for instance...
...offered by James R. Reynolds '23, Program Manager. "You don't get many eggs if you have a great many roosters and very few hens," the amateur farmer noted. "No cow ever let down milk in response to a letter or a telephone call," he warned; "you have to sit down beside her and go to work...
...reverse flip: "The hero of On the Road is now a normal settled-down adult. He's a railroad conductor with three kids. I've seen him put the kids to bed, kneel down and say the Lord's Prayer, and then maybe he'll sit down and watch television...
Abdication. In Wimbledon, England, the juvenile court put a 15-year-old girl on probation after she pledged: "I will get a job and will not sit at home all day running the rest of the household; I will not be violent, swearing and shouting and breaking up the home; I will not strike my mother or order my father out of the house...