Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unintentional as the slight was, it was a symbolic forerunner of a notable lack of enthusiasm on the part of the U.S. as Secretary of State Dulles and Pineau sat down in Foggy Bottom for informal discussions that stretched through three days. Net results...
Sober Center. After dozens of toasts to Eisenhower, to friendship, to peace, and, in a memorable moment, to Red China (when all the Americans sat stock-still in their seats, raised no glasses), Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev spoke volubly, turning to Twining and challenging: "You are probably interested in our rockets and our ballistic missiles. You would like to see them, wouldn...
...Sizzler. Into this delicate situation Charlie Wilson thrust his heavy thumb, outraging Senators of both parties by impugning the motives and dignity of the august U.S. Senate. Democrat after Democrat arose to denounce Wilson; several of them demanded his immediate resignation. Republicans for the most part sat in embarrassed silence...
...compromise him, and they did it in ways and at times when he could not easily respond. It was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who capped the Kremlin's efforts. In the marble St. Catherine Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace, Tito, in his marshal's powder-blue uniform, sat down with Bulganin and Khrushchev to sign the joint communiqu...
...first time in their lives, Capricorn's delegates sat in free and equal congress last week to consider their common problems. Sir William Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas, and Lady Murphy sat side by side with three Kikuyu tribesmen who had defied Mau Mau threats of assassination to travel from Kenya. Peppery little Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton came in from Natal, mingled with white doctors and teachers and black farmers. At night, over beer and sandwiches, everyone lounged together and talked, while tall, lanky David Stirling strolled about, arguing, urging, explaining...