Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pounced upon at home and gambled abroad? How long, O how long will Republican roustabouts engage in a sideshow scramble for power and privilege?"* He dedicated the Democratic cause to the Greater Glory of God, invoked shades of Woodrow Wilson ("that great humanitarian and idealist") and Franklin Roosevelt ("He sat there in his wheelchair taller than his critics could stand"), called upon Americans to "rise up as one man and smite down those money-changers who have invaded and violated the people's temple of justice...
...them all turned out to be a Southerner: Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Husky, affable Governor Coleman, who learned how to handle extremists in his home state, kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged in the shade, puffing acrid French tobacco and sipping lemonade. Suddenly there was a stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet...
...hear that you are running for President, but you certainly aren't taking yourself seriously, are you? "Happy" Chandler (hurt to the quick): I certainly am. I'm spending my own money, and I'm no fool. You know what they said about the man who sat down at the piano, don't you? . . . Stranger guys than I have lived in the White House! Perle: Who are they? Happy (in miserable evasion): I'm working as hard as I can for this because I feel the people want me. Perle...
...eating sausages and drinking beer before getting down to the serious business. The festive atmosphere suggested a public disputation from Reformation times. Banners waved; huge flats proclaimed such Christian symbols as a cross, a dove, a hand, the watchful eye of God. Dignitaries of state and black-robed bishops sat in bleachers, preparing to watch the debate that was shaping up. What made the occasion particularly poignant was the presence of 23,000 Protestants from the East zone, who have been living under Communist rule...