Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman sits at the head of the U-shaped table and the others spread out from him, taking care that guests and Senior Fellows do not sit side by side but interspersed among the Junior Fellows. No lines of age or rank are recognized...
Yours was the most lucidly written article I have yet read. However, the Maccabees are among the greatest of the Jewish heroes, and the suggestion that Jonathan and Simon may have been the villains of the story is not going to sit well with the Jews...
...ranch house down yonder in Washington. But just as he is faced on the one side by Knowland's smoking guns, so is Knight hemmed in on the other by the long-range rifles of Nixon, who might take part of the delegation away from the governor. To sit tight in his saddle, then. Goodie Knight kicked up the dust and ranged up and down the state last week rounding up a posse...
Tacoma Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower, 68, breezed into Washington all ready to sit on the opposite side of Griffith Stadium from his brother Dwight, 66. For the baseball season's opening game, Edgar was the guest of the visiting Baltimore Orioles (he had met Manager Paul Richards while vacationing near the Orioles' Arizona training camp), while Dwight was the first-ball pitcher and No. 1 rooter for the Washington Senators. Before Edgar left Washington, he hit the brotherly differences clear out of the ballpark...
Genius at Work. The face of this new industry is as different from old-line industries as a candle from electricity. New companies need little equipment or capital, but they need plenty of brainpower. In the air-conditioned calm of office cubicles, grey-flanneled young Ph.D.s sit sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas on a blackboard jungle of schoolmasters' slates. Though some production lines, such as those for radio and TV sets, look much like those of any other industry, most electronic lines are as peaceful as libraries; ranks of nimble-fingered women, carefully smocked and snooded to keep...