Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People in Luxembourg like to give small parties at which the guests sit around and talk quietly about business and the weather. The Grand Duchess Charlotte rarely ever mingles with her guests; at the receptions in her toylike palace, she prefers to remain secluded in a small side room. Last week Luxembourg, whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with...
...Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come. We're in a hurry...
...nearly three years the New Mexican had to sit on the biggest local story it ever had-Los Alamos and the atom bomb. As a reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat on the 1945 announcement of what had been going on at Los Alamos. Will Harrison thinks his crusading journalism also pays off. Since he took over, the New Mexican's circulation has gone...
...dead), or for the passing of a funeral or the flag. Women no longer bow when they meet; autoists no longer defer to skittish horses and their nervous riders on their way to Hyde Park's Rotten Row. Women stand in buses and trains while men and boys sit in comfort (a form of rudeness common even in non-Socialist communities...
...their policies and programs in print. In Pittsburgh last week, Leech defended his legwork. Said he: "I kept away from top politicians in both parties...[They] only give you the official party line...I tried hardest to see plain people, to drop into pubs and strike up conversations, to sit on benches in Hyde Park...I don't think there is any serious charge in my whole series that hasn't been printed in British newspapers and magazines...Nobody was more surprised than I when the British press took the stories so seriously...