Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following a performance, Flagstad herself appeared in Aase's dressing room and announced: "You are my successor...
...raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...
...long to sit with newspapers unfurled...
...order to boycott schools: about 400,000 Moslem children now attend classes, compared to some 300,000 on Oct. 1, 1954, on the eve of the rebellion. Free medical consultations have advanced in one year from 250,000 per month to 610,000. A total of 3,400 Moslems sit in the municipal assemblies, compared with fewer than 800 Europeans...
...came offers of two jobs and a score of places to live. Buck thought he would like to teach music. As soon as he and Superintendent Sasser agree on a place for him to go, he will be free-free, as Buck put it, "just to go out and sit in a park and listen to a good band...