Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Erikson said that he and some friends once decided to walk back and forth across the cross-walk on Massachusetts Avenue when the streelight said 'walk,' and to sit in the street when it said 'don't walk.' Laage and a friend made each other wear signs at all times for a week except when sleeping or in the shower, in the interest of truth and suffering. Laage's read "I am a pimply-faced boy," while his friend's read "I am a windbag at both ends...
Once students of the 1980's arrive on campus the separation is barely evident. Gone are the days when women were barred from Widener and forced to sit in the hall in order to audit all-male courses. Today men and women live together, attend classes together, and participate together in the same extracurriculars...
...case, the American First Lady is ready to launch a counterattack. East Wing scouts have collected photographs of every site where the two women will meet, and Nancy has an eye on every detail -- from where to sit to be out of the wind to the color of towels in the powder rooms. It should be a meeting to remember. How will Nancy's homework compare with Raisa's recent English lessons? Will Raisa's hair, which was formerly hennaed in the salon of Moscow's exclusive International Hotel, match the brilliance of Nancy's, which is touched up with...
...used to hook the workers with popular novels, leaving everyone in suspense for the next installment and substantially cutting down on absenteeism to boot. "On hot days," recalls Henry Aparicio, 72, whose father was a famous reader from Spain, "the people who lived close to the factory would sometimes sit outside with parasols, knitting and sewing, trying to find out how the soap operas were going...
...grassy boulevard in front of a home Nancy Reagan may visit has been replanted. Like a latter-day Potemkin village, Moscow last week was being spruced up for next week's summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But the most noteworthy preparation for the superpower sit-down was in progress about 2,000 miles from the Kremlin on the dusty, sunbaked plateaus of northern Afghanistan. There a convoy of nearly 300 tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across the border into the motherland as the Soviet army began a retreat from its disastrous 8 1/2-year effort...