Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation. I said: 'Let's not talk about the past, but about the future. I'll give you a real investigation if you want it. If you don't want it, fire me.' ... I made the mistake of slouching, and they asked me to sit up. I said: 'Let the record show that I am now sitting...
...organized within 90 days, is to have one flag, one army, one foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that it is not too late for King Saud to line...
...months ago, no aspect of it shocked the peers more than the proposal to admit women to the august Upper House. "The main point is that many of us do not want women in this House!" roared the 83-year-old Earl of Glasgow. "We do not want to sit beside them on these benches. We do not want to meet them in the library. This is a House of men, a House of Lords. We do not wish it to become a House of Lords and Ladies." More gallantly, the Earl of Home suggested that "taking women into parliamentary...
...devoured the raw meat." But in mien and in amour he was "so disciplined, so logical, so conservative." Dagmar's heart leaped when, at long last, Igor bent forward and murmured: "Come tomorrow night"-then added: "I so want you to meet my wife." Igor and Dagmar "would sit for hours sipping Dubonnet while he unburdened himself" and inveighed against his critics. "Why do they blame me for my music?" he would rage. "Why don't they blame God? He gave me my gifts!" His mother refused to attend the famed Paris première of the Sacre...
...that peeresses will sit in Westminster, any talk about abolishing the House of Lords should be quickly quashed. By recognizing the other sex, the Lords have redemonstrated their vigor. Duchesses and marchionesses will probably inject a more humane note into arguments on hunting rights and capital punishment...