Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discuss their strategy for the Assembly (see "Poujadists Under Fire" in FOREIGN NEWS). Correspondent de Carvalho thought he was passing unnoticed until he spotted a Poujadist staring suspiciously at his lapels: except for Poujade himself, De Carvalho was the only one present not wearing a Poujadist emblem. But he sat tight, and afterwards invited a Poujadist Deputy to dinner. The Deputy showed up with a longtime friend, who listened wide-eyed to De Carvalho's questions and with even greater interest to the Deputy's answers. When the interview ended-at 2 a.m.-the friend remarked: "I learned...
...pass the bill seemed well in hand. When South Dakota's comma-conscious Republican Senator Francis Case rose to speak, it was the signal for other Senators to burrow deeper into their newspapers or strike up desultory conversation with their neighbors. But by the time Francis Case sat down, he had shaken the Senate to its foundations...
...Tender Trap. During the 1952 campaign, Lausche went on the road with a group of touring Democratic candidates. In Oxford, Hamilton and Middletown, he failed conspicuously to mention his platform companions a single time. On the way to the final meeting in Dayton, a freshman candidate for Congress sat next to Lausche in his car. "Governor," he said, "I'm new to politics, running for the first time. But it seems amazing to me the way you've been talking. I thought we were all in this together...
Allegro believes that the sect was conscious of a sense of nervous excitement when "outrage succeeded outrage, blasphemy and idolatry sat insolently in high places, and even the high priest of Israel defiled the sanctity of God with his presence." The Essenes, he asserted, looked forward to a blessed release and the return of its priestly "Teacher of Righteousness...
...have thought either that Boston food was so bad that nobody would want to know about it, or else that gourmets werentt curious. So the Rikers had to print it themselves, and it had been a huge success, and they were planning a new and better edition soon. We sat back, our curiosity satisfied, but they disillusioned us again, because it seems they weren't paying for the affair after all. They had only met Mr. Bel a couple of weeks before and were very surprised when he told them he would like to give them a party. Bel told...