Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the bomb went off, my wife sat up in bed and said, in a surprised voice, "My word! Another bomb !" Our two older children, aged 4 and 2½, were rather excited, but not unduly disturbed. We thank God that he did not allow the larger bomb to explode; the police said it would have leveled the house. We can take the bombs and the nasty phone calls and letters; we can take the insults and the stares. But please, we don't want people to think we've started to get panicky and to run away...
Here is the real meaning: when my brother-in-law wore my hat, coat, shoes and ties, I thought he was just nervy, but when he sat down to dinner and smiled at me with my own teeth-then I knew he had hutzpa...
...last year's campaign. For fully a month, despite Ike's call for speed, Senate Democrats nitpicked their way through the resolution, pausing for rhetoric, savoring revenge as they harpooned Dulles at every opportunity (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.). By last week, when the joint committee sat down to draft its version, the Democrats had made themselves look irresponsibly partisan. Then earnest, honest Mike Mansfield stepped in to the rescue...
Some 40 miles away in Bentre, a dissident group of 20,000 disillusioned Cao Daists, accepting at last the fact that the old Pope was gone for good and that even Hollywood could not bring him back, sat down in a grove of coconut trees and elected a new Pope...
...wooden benches in the well-guarded recreation hall of the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus sat 53 convicts-killers in for life, bank robbers, embezzlers, check forgers. Some wore the white jacket and trousers of hospital attendants (duty for which they had volunteered in the prison); others, fresh from work gangs, wore blue dungarees. As a man's name was called he walked upstairs to a room equipped as an emergency surgery, sat down and proffered a bare forearm. Dr. Chester M. Southam of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute then proceeded to inject live cancer cells...