Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the gate, Karaolis' mother sat on a little chair. An air of smoldering enmity hung over the capital city of Nicosia. Shops shut tight in protest; workers left jobs. Men no longer sat at cafes but lounged sullenly at the curbs; they glared and spat as young British troopers rattled past in Land Rovers, their Bren guns trained outboard...
...whom he practiced contemplation, until he saw that it led nowhere. Then he attached himself to five ascetics and fasted, until "when I touched my belly I felt my backbone through it." But this, too. proved a spiritual dead end, and at last, after six years of experiment, he sat down beneath a Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya in northeastern India and determined not to move until he had plumbed the secret of existence. After 49 days it came-what Buddhists call The Enlightenment. "I knew," said Buddha, " 'rebirth' has been destroyed, the higher life has been...
...Cave. This week in Rangoon, 500 monks chanted through the last of 1,600 hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held...
Preakness (Sat. 5:45 p.m., CBS). Top three-year-old horse race, from Baltimore...
...best-known products of North Dakota are wheat, livestock, and Lawrence Welk. More than 30 million people tune their TV sets in each week on Welk, 53, and his "Champagne Music" (Sat. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC). In less than a year, listeners have boosted his Nielsen rating from a puny 7.1 to an astonishing 32.5. Welk and his 24-piece band are consistently beating the four NBC and CBS shows opposite him (People Are Funny, Jimmy Durante, Two for the Money, It's Always Jan). His delighted sponsor, the Dodge Division of Chrysler Corp.. has renewed his contract...