Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, was all in favor of the idea: "James M. Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor to sit in city hall." From darkest Chicago, far from the hub of the solar system, former Harvard Running Back Edward Cronin chimed in, "I proudly wish to add my name to the growing rolls...
...bargaining situations or games, as they are called in Raiffa's course, are abstracted and simplified from more complex real-life business situations. One student might play the role of a policeman's union leader, the other a city mayor. The two sit down and negotiate a contract, each attempting to get as favorable an agreement...
...outside pressure group. This alternative may be symbolically represented by a group of students on the steps of University Hall, reading a list of demands. Second, it may function as an inside pressure group. Symbolically, this approach is realized when some of the students on the steps walk inside, sit down with University administrators, and attempt to effect change through discussion and compromise...
Miles' Law. Where you stand depends on where you sit.−Former HEW Administrator Rufus Miles...
Other writers may sit white-knuckled at their desks, grinding out a few pages a day, a book every couple of years. Not Isaac Asimov. Back in 1938, the teenage author sold his first tale to Amazing Stories, a science-fiction magazine. Encouraged, he branched out from sci-fi to fields as varied as his interests: literary criticism, psychology, mathematics, mystery, poetry, humor, American history. Simenon may have written more thrillers, Chesterton more poetry and philosophy, Pulp Romance Writer Barbara Cartland more novels. But no single author has ever written more books about more subjects than Isaac Asimov...