Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOBODY laughed when TIME'S Montreal Bureau Chief Byron Riggan sat down to relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response...
That afternoon, to savor the exotic culture of the back-country people, the Nixons drove 20 miles from Accra to the hill town of Aburi. The colorfully dressed tribesmen assigned Nixon a mahogany throne. Pat, dandling a native infant on her knee, sat beside him on a smaller throne, watching as the tribal drums thrummed and the natives danced their age-old rituals...
...proposal to disband outright was reportedly dismissed without much consideration. As one board member said, "it looked pretty silly when we actually sat down and started to talk about it." The board then discussed a move to suspend operations temporarily; but this, too, was voted down...
Thirty M.I.T. "disturbers of the peace" sat cowed in East Cambridge District Court yesterday as police officers tried to identify them in connection with crimes they allegedly committed at the "Food Riots" of March...
Kaye later imitated a yogi. "If you have a navel, contemplate it. I contemplate it. I hate it." He also turned the house lights on, sat on the edge of the stage,, and chatted with the audience...