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Word: sittings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively minor role of the Hearstlings in running the shop so intriguing is that they own the store. The family trust holds 100% of the stock, and dividends are distributed only to relatives. Yet only five of the trust's 13 directors are family members, and only seven Hearsts sit on the 20-member board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Spurning A Father's Advice | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Despite the setbacks, the protesters vowed tocontinue to press their case on a political level.The seven, who are representing themselves incourt, say they will use a "legitimate purpose"defense that attempts to show that they had a dutyto sit-in to prevent illegal action. They said theillegal action was the furthering of Harvard'sinvestments in South Africa by the guests whoattended the fundraising dinner...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Necessity Defense Barred In Fogg Protester Trial | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...Meyer. Siskel lives with his wife and two children in a fashionable ten-room co-op and is such a fan of Saturday Night Fever that at a celebrity auction he bought the % white suit John Travolta wore in the film. They rarely socialize with each other and never sit together at screenings: Siskel is typically near the back, Ebert farther down the aisle, usually munching from a box of Good & Plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: It Stinks! You're Crazy! | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...primarily a listing game, with lists for most birds seen in a day or lifetime, a county or a season. Peterson, 78, once kept a list of birdcalls he heard on movie sound tracks. Some feel compelled to list birds seen during a single minute, or those seen while sitting in one chair for a full day (the "Big Sit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: All That Jizz | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...Evans and her mother, who founded the column and whose name really was Heloise. This in spite of much duly reported bar- and restaurant-hopping and a brush with the law after finding himself lost in a deserted shopping mall: "He told me to give him my license and sit down and shut up or he'd throw my ass in jail for public intoxication. I told him I hadn't seen much else but public intoxication in San Antonio that night, and his handcuffs made a cricketlike sound as he took them off his belt. I gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lallygagging Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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