Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea the U.N. took up in the name of law and in law's terms, the question of repeated Communist violations of contract in the armistice agreement. With the facts established, the U.N. command sat down at Panmunjom and quietly announced that it meant to modernize its own forces, thus redress the legal balance...
...Republican Warren was elected California's governor three times with labor as well as business support, was a good, if plodding administrator, endeared himself to the faculty of the University of California by standing firm against loyalty oaths for teachers. Hearty, outgoing, hard-working Baptist Warren never before sat on the bench, is rated still short on substantive approach to law, long on sweeping liberal judgments...
Lured onto a speakers' platform in Asheville, N.C. by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, frosty-haired old (79) Poet Carl Sandburg sat bemusedly while a TV show was praised. Then he took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery...
...more than five hours Kittinger sat on his nylon mesh seat chatting with Stapp and the scientists by radio, while they watched the readings of instruments that monitored his pulse, breathing and heartbeat. As everything was checked and rechecked for the start of the flight, Kittinger kept reporting, "No sweat. No sweat." Stapp says: "His heartbeats were more regular than the beats of those who monitored them...
...figures he needed. In his five installments, Strickland documented the corruption with such facts as the addresses of 27 places where he found illegal slot machines, told where to lay bets or roll dice, and reported: "I have seen horse bets placed, and openly discussed, while a policeman sat drinking a cup of coffee almost within arm's reach of the bookie." Strickland's summation of Jefferson Parish: "A giant new octopus of organized gambling is flexing its tentacles for an even bigger grab. It is little short of being a gigantic casino...