Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought, until, thesis printed and handed in, a friend mentioned house crew. I used to see Kristin and the rest of her eight stumble into breakfast each morning, go through the kitchen in unison, toast their bagels in unison, pour their cereal into bowls in unison, and then sit down to discuss the morning's row. Whether they were all wet because they had gotten splashed, I neither knew nor wished to find out. Very dry, dressed for school and engrossed in my morning paper, I didn't really have any desire to join them. They were a breed apart...
Chung says his special methods require, more than anything else, a good deal of brainstorming. "We try to sit down and figure out what would capture our attention and then we call people on other campuses and ask them what they think would be most effective," says Chung...
...past the entrance. One American woman said she twice drove a Marine to visit what he called his "Finnish girlfriend." But, she said, "the place was some sort of Soviet institute, so I suspect the girlfriend was Russian." Another way for the Marines to get out was to "apartment-sit" overnight for Americans on vacations...
...cable network began televising the proceedings of the two houses. Now reporters watch them on big television sets in the third-floor rabbit warren called the Senate Press Gallery, with its incongruously ornate ceiling and floor, joined by drab partitions of a later date. Where they once had to sit in the gallery, now correspondents can watch the action or lack thereof as they tap away at their modem word processors, sip coffee and turn down the volume on Senators D'Amato and Helms...
...Students do not always want to live with theactions of their predecessors," Professor ofGovernment Roderick Macfarquhar said at themeeting. "Future generations participating in thisbody may have fresh ideas."Former Dean of the College JOHN B. FOX '59negotiates with students staging a sit-in at 17Quincy Street two years...