Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blackboard is something they once scribbled on, long, long ago in school. But for one U.S. industry, the old blackboard is as necessary as slide rules and secretaries. The industry is electronics, currently the fastest-growing major U.S. industry ($11.5 billion this year), whose brainy young scientist-businessmen sit in air-conditioned offices sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas. One of the fruits of their doodles-a new family of miniaturized electronic components to do much of the work of standard vacuum tubes-so fascinated Business Researcher Claudine Tillier and Picture Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked on this week...
...budget, but G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill were spreading the word that he was reconciled to a cut of well over $1 billion. The Administration's leadership had already confused one House Republican to the point of complaining: "The President lays out his program and lets it sit there. Sometimes, with one Cabinet member saying one thing and still another Cabinet member saying another, we can't even find out what the President's program...
...deer grazed on the lush green lawns, Sukarno summoned the country's military leaders and the slightly confused members of the 24-man Emergency Cabinet he had selected to lead the country out of chaos. "Brethren," said Sukarno, "I as President and Supreme Commander order you all to sit in ministerial council." And sit they did. But before the week was out, there were mounting signs that Sukarno's crackling start might end in a damp sputter...
...However, the first young gentleman with whom she sought to follow Mummy's advice soon married someone else. From this point on. Author Barrymore carefully chronicles several lovers and three husbands. First in the trio was British Actor Bramwell Fletcher. 17 years her senior, who liked to sit at home painting and reading. Husband No. 2 was Tennis Pro John Howard. Distressing in many ways. Johnny was a refreshing change in others, e.g., asked by Mummy to mow the lawn, he only drawled: "Sorry, Cat. no can do. I'd use the wrong muscles." Husband...
...bedroom ceiling ("Can you get DTs when you're only thirty?"). A heart attack carried off husband Bob, leaving Diana at the mercy of strong-minded Dan Freeman, her summer-stock leading man. Dan led Diana to a children's playground, murmured: "Come on, baby, sit in the swing . . . You're a sick girl. Diana . . . You are going to get to God." Instead. Diana found Dan massaging her back, crooning gently: "Ei-lu-lu, Bab-en-u. Ei-lu-lu-lu-lu. Baby"-an old lullaby his mother used to sing...