Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conventioners will, they sat and chatted about last night's parties and this morning's hangovers. Then suddenly they fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered...
...Fast?" Soon after Byrd sat down, the Senate voted by a lopsided 71 (29 Democrats, 42 Republicans) to 18 (Southern Democrats all) to begin debate on the rights bill already passed by the House. But no sooner had civil rights become the Senate's order of business than Minority Leader Bill Knowland's coalition commenced to come apart at the seams...
...chaos at the center has brought army revolts all over Indonesia, largely bloodless because the local commanders want to remain loyal to the central government, if only the government would prove worth its loyalty. In Djakarta last week, distressed by Communist gains and Sukarno's methods, sat Premier Djuanda Karta-widjaja, an able administrator who has been in virtually every Indonesian Cabinet since 1949. In his first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent James Bell that he does not recognize the legality of Sukarno's Communist...
...passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians go it alone...
...nose with pollen or caressed bees and wasps. "A man does not love a woman for her genius: he loves her in spite of her genius"-and Goudeket's love was as balanced and precise as a line of Colette's prose. For when his tempestuous wife sat down to write (for three hours every afternoon), it was as if some supernatural policeman appeared and took her wildness under complete control. Colette, at work, was humble, painstaking, indefatigably exact. The marvel of her work lies in the discipline with which she marshaled and controlled the sensuous savagery...