Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chavez has now finally achieved a breakthrough: nationwide grape sales were off 12% in 1968, and prices for this year's first California grapes are down as much as 15%. Last month ten growers representing about 12% of the state's table-grape production announced that they would sit down with Chavez to write a contract. If negotiations with Chavez succeed, some other vineyards may also sign contracts, but a determined majority still barely acknowledge his existence and remain adamantly opposed to union recognition...
...Yeah, but it's still not short. Listen! Most employers-Uh!--know about that work-in SDS is planning. Uh! They're not too liberal. Uh! They don't trust you kids. Uh!. So they don't want to hire you. Uh! There. Sit...
...SIT stripped to the waist on an operating table. The dermatologist walks...
...EARLY scene between the principle characters, a married couple, establishes their social and moral passivity. As the woman tells her husband about a sex orgy (also involving money and cars) in which she recently took part, the camera tracks very slowly from one to the other. They sit, scarcely moving, in silhouette--two-dimensional figures whose only reaction to the story (husband's) is to say, "get me excited...
...room where the press conference takes place is a large, yellow and brown auditorium. Reporters begin gathering there after lunch to wait for the eventual arrival, later in the afternoon, of the representatives. The journalists cluster around the proverbial press bar or sit and read copies of the statements which the delegates have delivered to the peace talks. Some of them phone back quotes from these statements to their papers...