Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sit among the peers. I want to hear the gavel ring, to hear
...could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country of Lake Constance. Once again, the great seasonal migration...
...democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things on her own initiative which will make people sit up and take notice. As yet there is little sign that such a personality is emerging...
After yawning several times, he left Lamont and headed back towards the Crimson building. It was a lovely night--warm, starry and quiet--just the kind of night on which Vag used to sit down by the Charles and assimilate the poetry of the city...
...King's head would satisfy him. But getting it was not easy. No English lawyer could be found to draw up the charge, nor would the House of Lords pass the necessary Ordinance. When the House of Commons, submissive to Cromwell, appointed 135 "safe" judges, 50 refused to sit. Among those who tried the King were many who were later to plead that they had been dragooned by Cromwell, who had signed the death warrant even before the verdict...