Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yardage. The President, who once coached the plebe team, grinned broadly when Army hung onto a 12-7 lead until the final whistle. Next morning he fidgeted nervously outside the hotel waiting for a tardy officer, so eager was he to do a tour of the Point. He sat listening intently through a class lecture on military history (subject: Was Lee justified in his campaign at Antietam?), took the review of the parading corps of cadets in their tar-bucket hats and grey uniforms...
Four Women, Two Veils. In the office of Radio Morocco, the country's government-run station, four young Moslem women sat at their desks one day last week. All wore skirts, high heels and jangly jewelry. When the office closed at 6:30 p.m., two of them powdered their noses and left for home without more ado. But the two others swathed themselves dutifully in djellabah and veil; they were bound for families which did not object to their leaving the house, but demanded adherence at home to the customs of old. Says Princess Aisha: "The veil itself...
Hateful Word. The son of an obscure Hamburg book publisher, Publisher Springer sat out World War II with a respiratory ailment and at war's end was among the first Germans to win an Allied license to start a magazine. With profits from Hör zu! he launched Hamburger Abendblatt, his first daily, in 1948, and five years later won out over 16 other bidders when the British decided to sell their occupation paper Die Welt (for an estimated...
...Since Mozart." In Forbidden Childhood (written with New York World-Telegram and Sun Music Critic Louis Biancolli), Ruth Slenczynska recalls how her father cursed her, kept her hungry and beat her into being a genius. Nine hours a day, seven days a week, she sat practicing in her slip at the keyboard, never wearing a dress because the sweat would have ruined it. Her mother's protests were useless. In all things the terrified child obeyed the man who, after saving her from drowning, told her: "I just saved your life. Your life belongs to me and me alone...
Schicklgruber just laughed when Hanfstaengl sat down at the piano, but when he started to play...