Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even if the notion of a world authority is still very remote, it may well be that the much less ambitious conception of a concert of powers, of the great powers of the world, being prepared to sit around the table and seek compromise solutions for all the disputes and difficulties that arise, will emerge again...
...intellectuals like Janos, but nobody took it seriously. One evening last summer, Janos and three friends met up with the top Moscow-trained DISZ leader, drunk and convivial in a restaurant, and one of Janos' friends suggested that what DISZ needed was a social club where young Communists could sit around, drink tea and play chess. A few days later, DISZ opened the Kossuth Club at its headquarters on Republic Square. Janos and his circle sent out word: use the club...
...wouldn't agree that Monday was Monday unless it would help him," a U.S. China hand once said of Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou was asked, by way of Burma's U Nu, to sit still for a filmed interview for U.S. television, Chou must have believed it would help him. It did not. But it helped those who saw a special rush edition of CBS's See It Now this week to get a remarkable portrait-with-sound of the man who is in name one of the masters of a fourth...
...behavior of the showy, black-and-orange Monarch butterflies, which appear to fly south in fall like migratory birds. Many authorities have doubted that insects have the brains and endurance to make a real migration to avoid the northern winter. The strategy of most insects is to sit out the winter as eggs or pupae. Last week Dr. Frederick Urquhart, director of Toronto's zoology museum, told about a 19-year study that tends to prove that Monarchs do migrate...
...many forms of art, Jarrell finds, too many people are willing to swallow spoon-fed taste: "A great many people are perfectly willing to sit on a porcupine, if you first exhibit it at the Museum of Modern Art and say it is a chair. In fact there is nothing that somebody won't buy and sit in, if you tell him it's a chair: the great new art form of our age, the one that will take anything we put in it, is the chair...