Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's hearings began, Dave himself sat down in the committee room, rolled out about 30 Fifth Amendment pleas in 32 minutes. But if Dave was not talking, his former business associates were -and what they had to say should have made Dave leap out of his expensive lizard-skin shoes. The talkers...
Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho insisted: "This is an internal affair." Saigon's lively, neon-lighted Chinese city of Cholon was plunged into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
Often Datini sat up day and night, hardly pausing to eat or sleep, tirelessly writing reprimands to his partners, agents and factors throughout Europe, begging them to act prudently, to "trust no man." Always, just as today, the last straw came in the form of taxation: "I shall see torn from me in my old age all that God has lent me . . . I have reached such a point that methinks, if a man stabbed me, no blood would issue forth...
...that rule came to a bloody end with the Indian Mutiny. In a splendid narrative, British Newsman James Leasor has brought a bewilderingly confused mass of material into focus where it belongs-on the Red Fort of Delhi and the old walled city where the last of the Moguls sat in splendor and squalor amid his treasure, eunuchs and his 700-year past...
Within the blood-colored walls of that fantastic city, like a queen bee in the great swarming hive of India, sat the ancient Mohammedan King of Delhi, a company pensioner, who suddenly found himself the unwilling leader of what today might be called a national war of liberation. As the mutineers in their elaborate British uniforms streamed into his city, all the pious old gentleman could do was to ask them not to loot too much (most of the British in Delhi were massacred in the first few days succeeding the mutiny) and consult the entrails of a goat...