Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wounded in foot and arms by the blast, Ben-Gurion tried to still panic. "Sit down, everybody, don't leave your seats," he cried. But the Parliament floor was already alive with activity. "Get an ambulance!", "Call a doctor!", "Don't crowd!" shouted some of the members, as others rushed for first-aid equipment. In the midst of the commotion, two doctor-parliamentarians found their way to Minister of Religious Affairs and Social Welfare Moshe Shapiro, whose blood was gushing from bad wounds in the stomach and head...
...Experimenters traveled by public transportation, which Lorenz described as "amazing" in its inadequacy. The trains are practically freight cars with coal smoke blowing in open windows, only wooden benches to sit on, and peasants standing in the aisles. The rail-roads sell about three times as many tickets as seats...
...government which has been condemned by the U.N. three times in the past year for its actions in Hungary . . . accusing the overwhelming majority of the human race of wanting war . . . Here is the chronic lawbreaker, not only seeking to be regarded as a good citizen, but actually trying to sit in the judge's seat and sentence the whole law-abiding community to jail. Here is the arsonist, trying his best to start another fire, and demanding the right to lead the fire brigade...
...Premier Souvanna Phouma has shown itself increasingly aware of the extent to which both corruption and the artificial exchange rate are damaging both Laos and the U.S. attempts to aid it. Last week U.S. Ambassador J. Graham Parsons flew back from Washington to his post in Vientiane to sit down with Laotian officials and work out plans for 1) establishing a realistic rate of exchange, and 2) helping Laos get a larger real share of the benefits it is entitled...
...From the beginning," says Thurber, "Ross cherished his dream of a Central Desk at which an infallible omniscience would sit, a dedicated genius, out of Technology by Mysticism, effortlessly controlling and coordinating editorial personnel, contributors, office boys, cranks and other visitors, manuscripts, proofs, cartoons, captions, covers, fiction, poetry and facts, and bringing forth each Thursday a magazine at once funny, journalistically sound, and flawless. He had persuaded himself that I might be just the wonder man he was looking...