Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the guarded inner labyrinth of the Pentagon, five men sit at a brightly polished table in soundproofed Room 2C923. Around them the walls are covered with maps: a relief map of Europe, flat blue maps of the Pacific and the Atlantic, brown-and-gold maps of the land masses of Asia and Africa. Spotted strategically across the grey wall-to-wall carpeting are wastebaskets stenciled SECRET.* Four of the five men are doing most of the talking; the fifth is listening, chain-smoking Parliaments, working intricately filigreed doodles on a white notepad with the preoccupation...
...industry's troubles are the result of antiquated ideas and unwise practices. Says Vice President Jack Fulham: "Just so long as we didn't do things the way they'd been done before, we seemed to succeed. People in the fish business just seem to sit back and wonder whether the mackerel will ever come back...
Idyl's End. There are quiet nights as the hunters sit silently with their rifles awaiting the antlered deer at a salt lick; they go spear fishing in the forest rivers, wake to brilliant mornings when billions of dewdrops shimmer like miniature suns, and huddle in the winter snugness of their clay-walled home with its roaring Russian stove. The climax of the year is the tiger hunt, when dogs and men go out to track down young cats and wrestle them into submission. And through this rhythmic cycle of the seasons, love springs up between Hryhory and Natalka...
...varsity will not play any other teams directly concerned with the NCAA selections (B.U., B.C., Clarkson, St. Lawrence, and R.P.I.) it must do two things: sit back and hope someone knocks off one or two of the New York teams; and then win all the rest of its games. The two Yale games, at the Garden, and at New Haven on March 9 will be the two real tests...
...making this requires more than the constructnon of libraries and the endowment of chairs in which scholars can sit. These things may promote scholarship, but scholarship filters into culture far too slowly to counteract the TV and the comic strip. More direct influence is needed. This influence is now called a liberal education...