Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these and uncounted, uncountable others were problems last week for a slender, balding man who sat talking softly, hands clasped around updrawn knee, behind his desk in a limestone building on Washington's Constitution Avenue. He is Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., 53, whose awesome duty it is to apply, on behalf of the U.S. Government, the constants of law to a time of explosive change...
...limelight sat McCarthy's chief aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...evening of September 25, 1933, 13 men sat down to dinner in two stately, oak-panelled rooms in Eliot House to initiate a venture into, "social experience at an intellectual level," Next fall in the same rooms the venture will begin anew, for the twenty-fifth time. The faces will be different, and there will be more of them--about thirty now--but the fundamental purpose and structure of the Society of Fellows will be the same...
...passed the Suna Kan and Idil Biret Law to send Idil and twelve-year-old Violinist Suna Kan to Paris. On the advice of the Ministry of Education, the Assembly not only provided funds for the girls but also for all members of their families. Then it sat back to see just how the prodigies would make...
...Buster Keaton Story (Paramount). The policeman circled the object suspiciously. Its face looked like something that had crawled up through the collar and died. On top of it, as though to keep the flies off, sat a filthy felt skimmer the shape of a garbage-can lid. The soup-stained Ascot tie was asserted by a simple clothespin. The black serge suit was sizes too small and green with experience. The slap shoes were as big as cantaloupe crates...