Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devilish thing," he declared to reporters. Warned that the peace fleet may not sail for lack of funds, Steele replied: "Then I will sail alone into the Christmas Island area. Or perhaps I could get some vessel to drop me on an atoll in the area, where I could sit out the tests and if necessary die in them." Said his wife: "I feel the same as a soldier's wife when the soldier goes away. It has got to be done...
...race requires no courage on our part," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But he was frank to admit that he was often afraid. "I think what frightens me most is that when I have actually lost control of the car there is absolutely nothing I can do except sit still, frozen with fear, and wait for events to take their natural course. All it requires is one very small error and one is embarrassingly dead...
...London this month Britons and Africans will sit down together to comb out the last snarls lying in the path of independence for the 31 million Africans of Nigeria. Their conversations have been speeded by the creation four months ago of the all-Negro Republic of Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast), whose U.S.-educated Premier Nkrunah has already moved into the residence of the departed British Governor General, leaving his old place to the Queen's new emissary...
Chicago Ikemen who have never taken the Tribune's anti-Eisenhower outbursts seriously are quick to accuse Knight of using criticism of the President to sell newspapers. Retorts Knight: "I don't sit down and say something because I think it is good for my newspapers. I don't fail to say something because I think it would be bad for my newspapers." Knight's rightward march is essentially the reaction of a cost-conscious businessman. But the hundreds of letters from worried readers that are pouring into his newspapers' and congressional offices each week...
When he was seven, Thomas Adrian Sands, scrawny, black-haired son of a Russian-born piano player, used to sit at the radio on a little farm near Shreveport, La. and listen to the moaning and wailing of his favorite hillbillies. "Mamma," he would cry out to Grace Sands, "it's Jimmy Davis! Mamma, it's Harmie Smith! Listen to the guitars. Oh, Mamma, if only I could have a guitar, I'd be so happy." Grace Sands went out one day and made a $10 down payment on a $65 guitar. Tommy taught himself to play...