Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khadija, his wife, of his vision of God and asked, "Do you believe it was a good or an evil spirit that revealed itself to me?" Whereupon his practical wife put the matter to an infallible test. She invited Mohammed to sit upon her lap. And when he had sat down, she asked, "Do you still behold the vision?" And when he replied that he did she began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness at our intimacy...
...shouted "Ghana! Ghana!"-the name of an ancient West African black empire which Nkrumah has chosen for the new state (TIME, July 30). Then the Nkrumah supporters broke into their party's battle song, Victory for Us. Men representing the country's Ashanti and Northern Territories opposition sat silent. Their acting leader said, however, that his side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with his centralizing policy. The British were delighted. Having decided on the big gamble of granting the Gold...
N.C.A.A. Football Game (Sat. 3:15 p.m., NBC). Kentucky v. Georgia Tech...
While unmarked police cars stood inconspicuously by, more than 2,000 Negro students filed into 54 previously segregated elementary and secondary schools in Louisville, Ky. last week. They were received without protest or excitement. ''The Negro and white youngsters sat down together and started studying together, and that was that,'' said one school official...
...bull session recently three longtime friends and railroaders-Delaware, Lackawanna & Western President Perry M. Shoemaker, Erie President Paul W. Johnston, and Delaware & Hudson President William White-sat down to chew over some common problems. All three run middle-sized, prosperous Eastern roads, but all face one long-range problem: how to compete effectively against both their own industry's giants and the growing inroads made by trucks and airlines. Last week the bull session grew into something more solid. The roads were talking merger, as equal partners in a single big line that would become the eighth biggest...