Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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While Weddington remains optimistic that three states will ratify before the deadline, Ramsay is not. From her extensive trips into "enemy territory" to sell the ERA, Ramsay's impression is that many legislatures plan to "sit on the vote," to bury it by avoidance. So convinced is she that the amendment faces death that Ramsay has asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to set up a meeting to discuss the possibility of introducing a bill to allow for the indefinite extension of the ERA ratification on deadline...
...just like we did in World War I and World War II and Korea. I would've stood with Afghanistan to keep the Communist butchers out of there. They've been butchering the innocent in that country--South America, Africa, they've been all over capturing the world! We sit by like a bunch of cowards, a bunch of yellow-striped cowards, not getting involved because we made a fool of ourself in South Vietnam and let them walk all over that country...
...most omnivorous representatives of their order, but pandas have restricted this catholicity of taste in the other direction--they belie the name of their order by subsisting almost entirely on bamboo. They live in dense forests of bamboo at high elevations in the mountains of western China. There they sit, largely unthreatened by predators, munching bamboo ten to twelve hours each...
This summer, however, it seemed that Murphy would be forced to sit out at least the cross-country season when a June operation on his achilles tendon proved less than satisfactory and the doctors wanted to reoperate this August...
...streets. Many construction projects and factories have been shut down, and men have been mobilized for the front. The Daura oil refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad, a potential target of Iranian fighters, has been closed down as a safety precaution. Along the palm-lined avenues, men sit in cafés and restaurants much of the day, sipping tea and exchanging the latest rumors about the war. Although gasoline is scarce, there appear to be no other shortages. Says the wife of a foreign businessman: "I go to the market now and find more of everything. I guess...