Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's most novel performance, the President and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan, in black tie before dinner at No. 10 Downing Street, sat down before British TV cameras for a 20-minute chat on a Britain-wide and Europe-wide hookup. Estimated audience: 20 million-plus. Macmillan, calling his friend of 17 years "Mr. President," congratulated him on his plan to exchange visits with Nikita Khrushchev-"sound contribution to peace." The President, calling the Prime Minister "Prime Minister" and "Harold," said that "Anglo-American relations have never been stronger and better than they...
...outposts crumpled, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, the Laotian army's regional commander, sat on the porch of his headquarters in Samneua City, peeling litchi nuts and staring morosely at the mildewed Roman Catholic church across the street. For French-trained General Amkha, who still holds the rank of captain in the French army, it was a nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting...
...this point, a Turkish civilian, Sureya Eslek, on trial with the Americans, leaped to his feet and called Capin a liar, crying, "I was beaten!" After testifying that he "watched" one illegal exchange of currency through a window, which reporters subsequently discovered to be opaque, Policeman Capin grumpily sat down, spent the rest of the day glaring at Defendant Eslek and opening and closing his fist in a way that inexorably drew the prisoners' attention to his giant signet ring...
Toscanini's Choice. Born in the French Pyrenees. Salzedo started out to be a pianist. His mother was a pianist at the Spanish summer court, and she sat her son down at the keyboard so early that he gave recitals at five, was taken out of school when he was six to concentrate on music. When the family moved to Paris, Carlos entered the conservatory and started studying the harp as a sideline. On his graduation, he was the only student in the school's history to win first prize in both piano and harp...
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