Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There were times when I'd sit out there on the sidelines, with five guys ahead of me and only practices on the scout squad getting my head beat in to look forward to. You begin to wonder whether it's all worth...
Forget, though, that the defense has holes in it the size of the Summer Tunnel. And forget the possibility that a couple of key injuries could destroy the team. Just sit back and consider this fact: if the offensive line pulls through and Brownie can get the ball moving, we'll have a championship caliber club on our hands...
Carter is expected to chat with Begin and Sadat separately Tuesday evening and again Wednesday morning. The first time the three leaders sit down together is likely to be Wednesday afternoon. U.S. officials originally figured that the summit, though open-ended, would last only two or three days and conclude by this weekend. Now they think it may run at least through the weekend and possibly a full week...
...worry that seniority rules hinder the promotion of women and blacks; consumerists and ecologists find unions ranged against them out of fear that consumer-protection and environmental laws will cost workers jobs. Columbia University Industrial Relations Professor James Kuhn believes that to regain power, "labor needs the imagination to sit down and bargain with Ralph Nader's group and the Sierra Club environmentalists as well as with employers...
Surely, replied the illustrious British astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, nature would forbid such a reductio ad absurdum as a star so compressed that sit does not shine. But two other astronomers, Mount Wilson Observatory's Fritz Zwicky and Walter Baade, were more intellectually adventurous...