Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel's leonine David Ben-Gurion, vowing that Israel's tough little army would not give up conquered Gaza and the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba until it got guarantees that Egypt could not again use these bases to attack Israel or strangle her commerce. There sat Egypt's deep-chested Gamal Abdel Nasser, shirtsleeved before his nine telephones, a hard-pressed, unpredictable man who was hearing the arguments with unaccustomed mildness...
...grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite of Paris' spring collections -the mystic and sacred time when Paris' top couturiers reveal to a tiptoe world the latest variations and dissonances on the theme of the Eternal Feminine...
...heirs of Federalist economics, Cadillac was exhibiting their new Directeur. At their show room, the Directeur, "superbly designed for the many requirements of a busy executive," was the star attraction. It included a secretarial compartment, ticker tape news screen, phonograph, and telephones. Inside sat a capitalistic-looking executive and a pretty secretary neatly stowed in her special compartment which faced backward from the front seat...
Once upon a time, after de third millenium since de foundin ob Heaven, de Lawd and all his advisory Boa'd of Seraphim sat 'roun in a big smoke-filled room which was kep' ventilated by some angels flapping deah wings. "Peter," said de Lawd, "You is de Chairman ob Admission and Angelships. What's dis ah hear about obercrowdin' ob de heavenly palaces...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Aïda, with Stella, Thebom, Baum, London...