Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seat of the Army's breeches. Another pinprick was violent criticism by the Legislature of the U. S. Army for starting construction of an airport on private property which the Army intended to purchase. The Army's Commander, Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, was refused permission to sit in a pew of the British Legation at an Independence Day service in Panama Cathedral...
Uncle Khosrove was a fierce and sorrowful man with the biggest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear...
Reaching Manhattan after a taxing flight from France, oldtime Viennese Composer Oscar Straus met his son and daughter-in-law, who persuaded him to sit down at the piano for the first time in six months, strum a few chords from his operetta The Chocolate Soldier. "In Europe," sighed Composer Straus, "the day of the waltz is for the moment ended...
...Civilization has been swept away before and can be again," said Russell, attacking those who sit back and say "everything will work out all right...
...seems to many of us that there has not been enough discussion for those in the "gray" group as regards the position of America in the present war. The extremists have poisoned our food, so to speak, and we sit in frank fear at the feast of death they have to offer...