Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital, Ike stepped from his car, sat in a waiting wheelchair, and was taken immediately to the two-room presidential suite on the eighth floor of the hospital's tower. On the way up he politely inquired after the health of the elevator operator, Charles Adams. Ike went right to bed, and was placed under an oxygen tent. The green-and-cream-colored suite is reserved for very important patients and furnished in the style of a hotel room, with upholstered chairs, a carpet on the floor, a desk and several lamps...
Mintoff proposed that Malta have elected representatives in the British Parliament, pay taxes on the British scale and share welfare state benefits. He also wanted economic integration-but this to come gradually over 15 or 20 years. With Mintoff sat a delegation of his political opposition, who also had come to the conference to lobby for a closer tie 'to Britain ; they preferred complete self-government within the Commonwealth...
...mayor's Board of Planning and Operations sat in solemn session, waiting for the worst...
Bill Jackson sat back in his corner, pulled off his pants and massaged his knee. "Boss," he said, 'I have a wrenched tendon. I just can't bear it any longer. Knew it wasn't much good any more when a little while ago I could barely...
...hurled each other to the ground, that they might slam their plated helmets into each other. They tried to dislocate the extremities of their enemies by slugging their opponents in the jaw or put them out of commission by some more devious method. At the same time, the managers sat in the grandstands chewing gum and watching boredly...