Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bargaining session between the steelworkers' union and the country's three largest steel companies had ended a few minutes before. McDonald, who had been leading the union delegates at the sessions in the Hotel Roosevelt, was anxious to be away from the stress and the press to sit back and relax...
...From these rooms some 700 messages each day are carried by foot to dormitory rooms throughout the Yard; in these rooms, attractively outfitted with modern furniture, including television sets, students may receive guests from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week; and at desks in these rooms sit Mrs. Clouser and Miss Jaeger, who have all sorts of information about such things as nearby beaches, weekend carpools, and laundry service (basement, middle entry of Grays, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at 25 cents a throw...
...Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, in his tercentenary address. Some samples of the progress: today there are approximately 450,000 Jews in the British Isles (about .88% of the total population) who worship in 450 established synagogues; 13 Jewish peers sit in the House of Lords and 19 Jews in the House of Commons; two hold high government jobs-the Marquess of Reading is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Baron Mancroft is Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs. Of the 110,000 British Jews who served in the armed...
...Snyder, knowing his longtime patient's susceptibility to indigestion, prescribed milk of magnesia ; he figured hope fully that it could do no harm and might bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that something worse than a stomach upset had hit the President. Calling in Walter Reed's Dr. Francis Pruitt to help, Dr. Snyder deduced by noontime that the President had acute ileitis...
...method was that favored by U.S. labor conciliators when all else has failed. The disputing parties were asked to sit in separate rooms beyond earshot of angry voices while President Manuti scampered between them. After seven hours he persuaded the Met to give its choristers a raise to $2.55 an hour for all rehearsal time after the first 15 hours each week, to reduce from 21 to 16 hours a week the rehearsal time that Met ballet dancers are required to put in without pay. The Met also threw in a job-security provision for the chorus and dancers...