Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, Stassen has very few concrete proposals to counter the "sit-tight" attitude of his chief antagonist. The President, himself, is looking for something as spectacular as his "open-skies" or atoms-for-peace plans with which to counter Premier Bulganin's pre-NATO-Conference call for a summit meeting. Unless Stassen can come up with a suitably electrifying proposal, he will find it well-nigh impossible to break through the Administration's massive complacency...
...Show. With his customary skill, Senate Majority Leader Johnson has placed himself directly on top of the session's key issue. As chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, he will sit as prosecutor and judge while the civilian and military brass from the Pentagon is summoned up to the Hill and cross-examined on U.S. defense shortfalls. The committee's report will have a strong impact on what Congress does about defense. Working closely with Texas' Johnson in the defense area will be the chairmen of the House and Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittees, Texas' Representative George...
...McFarland, has a spread of comforts as wide as his cotton yield: a color TV set, 40-ft. swimming pool, three Cadillacs and a Buick, an estimated worth of $4,000,000. Gazing through his tinted picture windows at his fertile land, he recalls: "Back home we used to sit on the front porch and wait for rain. We'd go to camp meetings and pray for it. Well, out here all you have to do is push a button and you get all the rain [i.e., from deepwell systems] you want. Why, with all this land...
...Russians did not even wait for the NATO chiefs to get back home. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko briskly dismissed the NATO chiefs' proffer of a new foreign ministers' conference on disarmament. "We are in fact invited to sit again at a conference table with the same NATO members with whom we have patiently negotiated until now," he told the Supreme Soviet, "and to launch again into sterile negotiations which do not advance the cause of disarmament one whit." In almost the same breath and on almost the same grounds, he scuttled any idea of renewed Russian participation...
...would be nice if the men in University Hall (who sit behind well polished mahogany desks) gave the professors a real lectern. But results might come faster and prettier if Professors Bate, Demos, Friedrich, Harbage, and Schlesinger all chipped in and bought one them selves...