Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the announcements, Grace and Rainier attended a gala ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where they sat uncomfortably in a "royal" box and nibbled crystallized violets while the press howled at the door. Grace wore a Dior gown and low heels so that she would not be taller than the 5 ft. 6 in. Prince. Later, at the Harwyn Club, Grace nibbled at Rainier's ear, and danced with him until 4 a.m. This week she was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, leaving her fiancé to wander around...
...them the growing anarchy in Algeria. If France's governing center cannot get together and stay together, there are two legal ways out of such a marriage. A future Premier can dissolve the Parliament and call for new elections, as Faure did-but not until the Assembly has sat for 18 months and overthrown two Premiers by an Assembly majority...
...otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly, where he sat in the gallery brazenly directing the debate, won concessions from Premier Faure's government (TIME, April 11). Setting up headquarters in a villa near
...Ingathering of the Exiles crammed the new republic with people from 70 lands, without mutual understanding, unable to speak to each other, refusing often to pray together. Half the population is now composed of Oriental Jews, many of them near-primitive savages from darkest Arabia who had never sat down to a table...
...Comrade,' he said, 'This is the line.' 'Do you mean,' I said, 'that you just sat down and dreamed this up on the typewriter?' He said I shouldn't talk that way to a comrade." When Glaser killed the story, Eisler called him on the carpet and told him he "had insufficient political development and still had bourgeois traits...