Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the House sat as a Committee of the Whole to debate civil rights, Smith issued a two-part order of the day. His 100 Southern Congressmen were to concentrate fire behind an amendment calling for jury trials in contempt cases-a device of North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin Jr. that would effectively gut the bill while piously pretending to preserve venerable jury-trial rights (TIME, May 6). They were to fight the battle with calmness and consideration, said Smith...
...other -except Nuri whose identity had to be known. Once one of the officers sent word to Nuri that he could not attend because of illness. Because his illness was known and his absence would betray his identity, Nuri dressed his own mother in the hooded robe, and she sat silently through the meeting to make the group add up to the right number...
...officials stood helplessly by wondering what to do next. At one point, the bemused old tribal chieftain reached out his hand to accept the $75 offered him as compensation for his land, but a crowd of Mamatola women screamed "Coward!" at him. The chief returned the money and sat down moodily on a kitchen chair on the mountainside. When at last the sun dipped down behind the mountains, there was nothing the government men could do but climb back into their empty trucks and head for home...
...defense for grades upholds their validity. Dean Leighton says, "You must have some measure of academic performance." He believes that grades are quality of SAT prediction, in terms of a perfectly suitable measure, pointing to grade curves which correlate with scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests. But of course all these figures show is the later grades. Neither standard is necessarily meaningful...
...Your Iron Curtain." They warmed him up with questions on Soviet agriculture. A Foreign Ministry interpreter at his side whispered the questions in Russian, and another off-screen kept a sentence behind him in English over his electronically muted replies. Khrushchev, who has never appeared on Russian TV, sat calmly at his desk with his hands folded, grew more animated when the talk shifted to the U.S.-Russian tension. He jabbed his finger didactically as he prophesied that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism." A metal tooth often glinted at the corner of a cunning smile...