Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab. When an Arab marries, he doesn't want a wife or a companion; he just wants a slave. They treat their women like dirt-worse than dirt. They slug them and spit in their faces and then go off and leave them at home while they go sit in these coffee houses. Even before we left Tacoma, he used to go out to a tavern some nights and leave me at home with baby. I told him I wouldn't stand for that, and I asked if he'd leave me at home alone when...
...served by servants off gold plates. Well, you know, in the States a 14-room house means something, but there they didn't even have a sink. The place was filthy, and the food didn't agree with me. His parents expected me to sit on the floor and do the baby's washing by hand, but he didn't seem to care. I begged him to get us a house by ourselves, but he wouldn't do it. He just wanted to play around and live off his parents. We started having rows...
...enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming his own tunes, singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor. "All I do," he says, "is just take it easy. I sit in my own backyard, and I got dark glasses on. Then I start going 'ump, ump, ump,' like I get the rhythm first, see? I take it cool, and there's nobody irritating me in my own backyard...
...girls: "When an American man starts behaving wickedly to you, don't hesitate to slap him in the face. This works instantly in the Land of Ladies First." Advice to the men: "It's ladies first, of course, when you enter a car or a door or sit down. But on a stairway, be sure to walk ahead of the lady. This is because the skirts are getting so short." Advice for all: "Americans consider a train coach a parlor, and pandemonium will result if any Japanese strip to their underwear, as on Japanese trains." ¶ The national...
...Summer School administration, proprietors of entertainment facilities in Boston and Cambridge, and Harvard semanticists all joined yesterday in a common plea to Summer School students: keep the entries to Yard dormitories clear. In other words, don't sit on the steps...