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Word: sat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trial by Fire. It was 5:30 p.m. on a mid-November day. Hudson sat quietly in his cell, eating off a tray. Other prisoners were lining up in the corridor outside, almost ready for the march to the mess hall. Suddenly, through the iron bars of Hudson's door came a soaking spray of lacquer thinner, followed by a lighted match. The cell exploded in flame, searing through 25 coats of paint on the wall, melting an overhead electric light-and sending Jim Hudson, afire, shrieking in agony, to rage at the bars that held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Iron Bars a Cage | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Gathering one night last week at Augusta's Bon Air Hotel, just two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's vacation cottage, 700 Georgians and South Carolinians sat down to roast sirloin of baby beef and a large serving of the kind of speech-making that Ike deplores. Firing up the faithful: Democratic Senator-elect Herman Talmadge and his longtime mentor, Georgia Political Boss Roy V. Harris, who was being testimonialized for 35 years of service to his state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Talmadge for President | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...English A, History 1, and Government 1. An informal football team stumbled through an informal football season, meeting and tying Boston College instead of Yale in "The Game." When the summer term came to an6The class of '46 looked like many of Harvard's past classes as it sat down to register for the first time. Within a few short months, however, nearly all of its members were in uniform...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: College Life During World War II Based on Country's Military Needs | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

...most critical problems on the team concerns the goal-tending position. Filling that spot is the sextet's captain, Jim Bailey, who has just about everything a goalie should have except experience. Bailey has sat on the varsity bench for the last two years watching All-American Charlie Flynn in the goal...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Sextet Shows Excellent Potential | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

Undergraduates sat in the aisles and professors on window sills as Robert Frost '01 recited some of his own poetry and commented upon himself and others in New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Frost Chides Metaphors, MIT, Footnotes in Speech | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

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