Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biden said he and the commitee's ranking Republican, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, would meet with the Senate leadership on a hearing timetable, and then sit down "sometime next week" with White House chief of staff Howard H. Baker...
...combative plan authored by extremists in the Administration. Their goal was to ram down the throats of the Senate and the nation an unkown and unproven judge whose constitutional views would be hard to rebut because they would be hard to find and who, at age 41, could sit on the Court for decades. To make matters worse, officials did not deny that it was hoped the selection of the Jewish Ginsburg would pre-empt the opposition of Jewish liberals to the nomination of a judicial conservative...
...sight of President Reagan defending Ginsburg's previous indulgences as making him something less than "an addict" and no less qualified to sit on the Supreme Court is no small cause for glee among those long ago deadened to the hypocrisy of the Reagan Administration and its leader. This is an Administration whose Justice Department has had a long-standing policy against hiring in any law-enforcement capacity anyone who admits on their job application to ever having tried pot. Which perhaps explains why when the ambitious Ginsburg was asked the $64,000 question when filling out application forms...
What can you have for a small price that you play with for a while and then sit and look at it for hours...
Much to Gray's surprise, however, East Coast puzzle solvers have a different style from those on the West Coast. Here, Gray relates, participants sit quietly and work on the puzzles, while on the West Coast, a puzzle party can turn into a rowdier affair...