Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those who sat with heads bowed were some of Orval Faubus' closest associates. The Governor himself was fooled up in the Executive Mansion with a cold -and his conscience...
...graft and inefficiency. In despair, big insurance companies (Newark is the U.S.'s second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says President Robert Cowan of the National Newark & Essex Banking Co.: "Up until that time, it was always 'nothing can be done.' " This time things were different...
...witness later testified, and his testimony was instrumental in clearing the defendant. The Boston lawyer made the actual appearance before the court, but the law student sat with him at the counsel table and suggested lines of cross-examination...
...that Nye was not going to do his usual roaring came as the delegates considered Leader Hugh Gaitskell's favorite proposal to switch from "oldfashioned nationalization" to a scheme for state buying of shares in key industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from the smoky Clydeside...
...nightmare scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When it was comfortably loose, Freud sat with his thumb to his face, holding the monster in place...