Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from which he can gaze for 40 miles across the Arkansas River valley, heart of the razorback state. Today the Arkansas that Winthrop Rockefeller views from Winrock is undergoing a startling change -and he is responsible for much of it. "We thought he had come down here just to sit on his tail," says Harry Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette. "We soon found out different...
till-now look lean forward expectantly. Dumpy ladies in basic black sit corset-upright and clutch stout, thick purses; the men from Seventh Avenue flick at their silver-white ties, exchanging grunted comments. The babble quickly hushes as the first model appears, and upon each face falls a stolid mask of calculated indifference, for any flicker will betray the spectator's interest to watching competitors...
...couturier's necessary secrets is who pays for the lady's dress. An elegant Frenchwoman will spend hours searching for the exact shade of stocking to go with a certain dress, spend days debating the choice of a dress or a hat. At her couturier, she will sit down, stand, squirm and wiggle to test her dress for an unsightly wrinkle here, a crease there, for she knows that when she dines out, every eye that is turned in her direction will be educated and practiced...
...Prime Minister has never been a man to sit long behind a desk. For three whirlwind weeks before the elections (which would last for almost three weeks) he swept across the nation, traveling by jeep, river steamer, sky-blue Cadillac, and his own Russian Ilyushin plane Messenger of the Clouds (the gift of Bulganin and Khrushchev) to address crowds that sometimes numbered...
...Hooker. To get around the inconveniences of unguided democracy, Sukarno proposed to hobble the Cabinet and concentrate political power in the hands of an extraparliamentary National Council, whose members he himself would select. In the new, "mutual-help" Cabinet, said he, "will sit all parties* represented in Parliament. Side by side with the Cabinet will be the National Council, whose membership will include all layers of our community. The council's function will be to advise the Cabinet whether or not it is asked...