Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First of all, sit down, because what I'm about to narrate are perhaps the strangest observations ever made about the 1989 Harvard football squad...
Stanford University was rocked by controversy earlier this year over that most basic of academic issues: what speech should always remain protected and what is so offensive that it can be stopped. After a sit-in on the president's office and various disciplinary penalties, the issue has yet to be resolved...
...Washington, to ease the FBI's burden, Bloch generally tells agents where he is headed. Even so, as one agent allowed, there have been some fender benders caused by the troupe. In front and back of Bloch's Washington apartment, FBI agents sit in autos, the motors running, smiling wanly at passersby...
...Reagan Administration, the brass knuckles were passed to George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger. There is a Washington adage: where you stand is where you sit. As the nation's chief diplomat, Shultz naturally pressed for better relations with the U.S.S.R., while Weinberger, who was responsible for the military establishment, preferred to wage the cold war and to prepare, if necessary, for World War III. But the hostility between them ran deeper than the competing interests of their departments. Weinberger apparently resented having been a subordinate to Shultz earlier...
...summer, Clancy has already been tinkering with three different books -- a new Ryan tale, a World War II naval adventure and a half-completed novel called Without Remorse, about a moralistic CIA assassin named Clark. Clancy's rationale for his new spate of writing: "You just can't sit at the computer and stare at the blank screen...