Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During early games, Karpov's neuropsychologist Zoukhar had sat in the front row of Baguio City's new amphitheater, staring disconcertingly at the challenger. After Korchnoi demanded that the doctor be expelled for trying to "hypnotize" him from a distance, officials ordered Zoukhar to sit in the back of the hall. To little avail. After 17 games, Karpov had built up a commanding 4-to-l lead...
...season with Guys and Dolls, that "musical fable of Broadway" and one of the classic musicals of the American theater (the film doesn't begin to do it justice). The small stage might cramp the dances, but nothing can keep down Frank Burrows' beautiful score, ranging from the delicious "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" to the exquisite "I'll Know." We think the witty book by Swerling and Burrows can hold its own, too. Guys and Dolls relates two love stories: that of Nathan Detroit, operator of the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York...
Corliss taught school in Boston after his graduation from Harvard 51 years ago. "When I retired I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow, and I didn't want a headache job," he explained. He came to Lamont eight years ago, and now works a tolerable 25 hours each week...
...Prime Minister was accompanied by the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, the most eloquent of the three black leaders who sit with him on the executive council that is preparing the way for Smith's concept of black rule in Rhodesia. The two leaders had a two-hour session with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance; as they left the State Department surrounded by Secret Service agents to protect them from placard-waving demonstrators, Smith grimly characterized the meeting as a sparring session in which there was nothing more than "a repetition of old ideas." In a pointed rebuff, Vance...
...mass rallies and as general headquarters for the SCLC effort. Members of the congregation often told of how one or two members would go to the Hines home and bring Tommy to church and bring him home after services. Rev. Robinson, Hines' friend, said he would come and sit in the front row every Sunday morning and smile...