Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the 85th Congress was three days old.,Dwight Eisenhower appeared on Capitol Hill to seek approval of the new doctrine designed to keep Communism out of the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 7). Before him in crowded rows and galleries sat the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, the members of the diplomatic corps (except the Russians and satellites, who stayed home), the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Cabinet and packed public galleries. The gravity of the occasion was indicated by the fact that a President had not in modern times addressed a new Congress in advance...
...Pressures. For his part, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had to summon ailing Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia. Plagued by a broken hip, aging (82) Matt Neely was wheeled in, sat uncomfortably fingering a water cup, waiting for the roll call. But not even Neely's arrival in a wheelchair, nor the appearance of Adlai Stevenson in the gallery, could shift the glow of a glorious moment from Frank Lausche, as he sat poised and quiet in an end seat, an aisle's breadth away from Republicanism...
Twenty minutes before the rapping of gavels convened the 85th Congress, a massive, bull-shouldered man entered the empty Senate chamber and moved with long strides to his desk in the front row, right side. For a few moments he sat alone among the curving rows, rustling through the pile of documents he had brought with him. Then one by one, two by two, his colleagues began drifting in through the swinging doors. The man leaped to his feet, began greeting each and every one with booming-voiced gladness, in the manner of one who truly loves his club...
...overstuffed parlor of an ungainly green-and-yellow hilltop house in Connecticut, the master of the harpsichord, stately, 77-year-old Wanda Landowska, sat down before the piano morning after morning to record her conception of Mozart. Around the frail old woman, in her gold slippers and purple kimono, hovered the engineers. For four and five hours at a stretch they recorded together, listened, recorded again. The fruits of a year's recording, released in a new RCA Victor album, constitute perhaps the most important single contribution to Mozart interpretation in his bicentennial year...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:45 p.m., ABC). Rigoletto...