Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grim, gruff John McClellan rapped the table with his gavel. Before him in the Senate caucus room sat Teamster Vice President James Riddle Hoffa, his stony face pale, his big fists flexing. It was a weary moment, the climax of 17 hours of question and evasion before McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee, during which Hoffa wriggled relentlessly over craggy points of absurdity. McClellan began to talk: "For reasons that are apparent to everyone who has followed these hearings, we have reached a point where it seems to be useless and a waste of the committee's time...
...Dakota banking family, tried banking in Fargo, N. Dak. (1918-19). flopped at Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago (1921-25), married very rich Marion Rosenwald* in 1921 (they were divorced in 1937), did better on the board of multimillionaire father-in-law Julius Rosenwald's Rosenwald Fund, also sat in as chairman of the Illinois State Housing Board (1933-37). She went to the University of Chicago (1926-30), learned there, as she put it. about "inequality, injustice, economic persecution," put in two years as assistant literary editor of the Chicago Tribune (1931-33), flung herself into sportive...
...over California's Sierra Nevada range and the ensuing 54 days during which he claims to have trekked (on sprained ankles) precariously through the wilderness. Returning to civilization sporting a handsome beard (TIME. July 15). Steeves. 23, was taken in tow by Air Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around Dave Steeves's ears; the Satevepost announced that it was canceling its contract, and Steeves's wife Rita announced...
...modest ranch-style house overlooking the city of Essen on West Germany's Ruhr River. Tall and spare, with steel-grey eyes and finely cut features, he slipped into a dressing gown and carefully selected an expensively tailored dark business suit from his wardrobe. After shaving, he sat down to his usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint of it, the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen...
...International Psychoanalytic Congress in Paris, Freud's brilliant biographer, Ernest Jones, 78 (see cut), sat between Princess Marie Bonaparte (lifetime patroness of the movement) and Freud's analyst daughter Anna, reflectively fingered a newly grown beard which was trimmed, by no coincidence, in the shape favored by the late great Sigmund Freud himself...