Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University could do little to end a bitter labor dispute at a coal mining company by selling its stock in the corporation, investment experts say, but Harvard Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 could persuade the company to sit down at the bargaining table...
...neutral site somewhere near Butte, Montana, four baseball fans sit before the tube in anticipation of today's American League Championship Series game from Oakland. By some harmonic convergence in the universe, one is an Oakland A's fan, another is a Blue Jay fan, a third is a Giant fan, and the last is, you guessed...
...workbooks; once completed, the buildings are torn down and put up again and again until the time allotted for block-building expires. And "No talking, while you're building," a teacher scolds. Or while you're eating, for that matter, or while you're going to the bathroom. "Sit upright, with hands clasped behind your backs," says another teacher. "That is correct behavior...
...sparrow of a man who always had trouble sleeping and could never sit still, Berlin worked at a furious pace. During a production conference for Annie Get Your Gun, it was decided that the show needed another song, so the composer rushed home. Six minutes later, the show's director got a phone call. "Listen to this," said Berlin, who launched into the first verse of Anything You Can Do. He had written it in the taxi...
...sit down, says the voice of reason. Have a nice cup of decaf tea. Try to remember that a car is not a puppy. True, the dreamer muses, but if adult automobiles bred and had young, the result might be a Miata: short nosed, rounded and soft looking; mischievous, with a funny, not quite serious growl...