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Word: sittings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from England to bugger off. Rachel's response is a revealing mixture of feminist hellfire and the ashes of envy. She uses her own disappointments with love and money as valuable object lessons at the same time that she accuses Heather of having it too easy: "Women don't sit at home any more, you know, dreaming of Prince Charming. They don't do it because they've found out that he doesn't exist. As you should have found out. I live in the real world, the world of deceptions. You live in the world of illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ashes Of Envy A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...command to guide the country through the dilemma? "After Ronald Reagan, people may be looking for another John Wayne," says Bush's media adviser Roger Ailes. "Well, George Bush isn't John Wayne. He's Gary Cooper in High Noon. He doesn't want to fight; he'd rather sit and talk things out. But if provoked, he'll fight. And he'll whip you." If the prospective Republican nominee can convince more people that he has that kind of gumption, then the title "President Bush" might seem a little more fitting than it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: The Man Who Would Be President | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...neutral in this race. Actually he is on the phone constantly with the Vice President, his friend of 30 years. "The best thing I can do for now is stay right here," he tells inquiring pols, pointing down at his thick beige carpet. A light pink shirt may sit puckishly against his somber Treasury pinstripes, or an Hermes tie may softly signal his worldly strides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What Friends Are For | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...course, could unilaterally abrogate the treaty, but at the cost of shredding Washington's reputation for trustworthiness around the world. Asks a foreign observer living in Panama: "What credibility would the U.S. ever have again anywhere in Latin America, or with the Soviets the next time they sit down to talk about missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About the Canal? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...were sitting on pins and needles," said Lowell Assistant Coach Brian Reilly, "It's tough to sit and wait...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Badgers Will Get Low (ell) Down | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

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