Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help whatever to his running mates on the Democratic ticket, ducks all discussion of campaign issues. He pays his own way into the county fairs, wearing a five-year-old suit and a haircut that looks almost as old. At the Hardin County Fair last week he declined to sit on the officials' platform, turned down a chance to award a trophy, shook his head modestly when asked if he would like to make a few re marks at the livestock show. What he did was wander around, clasping hands, tousling little boys' hair, and telling everyone...
...Chancellor had simply restated some harmless truisms about U.S.-European relations. Some European diplomats, however, were bewildered by the speech, felt that Adenauer was altering his own stout stand against a foreign policy of neutralism, a policy he had so long disdained with the comment: "One cannot sit between two chairs...
...been one outstanding event which embodies what we mean by gradualism and moderation: the Montgomery bus boycott. It was a local affair. Local leaders began it, for limited, local goals. It did not even aim at complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable citizens of Montgomery. And for this attitude, and the quiet strength of the movement, the Negro...
Mohammed told Khadija, his wife, of his vision of God and asked, "Do you believe it was a good or an evil spirit that revealed itself to me?" Whereupon his practical wife put the matter to an infallible test. She invited Mohammed to sit upon her lap. And when he had sat down, she asked, "Do you still behold the vision?" And when he replied that he did she began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness...
...when I sit and when I rise...