Word: sittings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...