Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compelling Impetus. Men's minds instinctively turned back to those wartime conferences when the Russians sat as allies, and decisions were regarded-by the Western allies, at least-as directed only toward the defeat of a common...
Touring London's suburbs at week's end, Eden ran into uglier heckling. "You're a traitor to Britain by giving arms to the Germans," a hoarse voice called out. and trailed off into an accusation that Eden and the Conservatives had sat back on chairs while Britons died in the war. Eden reddened and flared, "I lost two brothers in the first war and my son in the last one." The heckler howled: "You're a scoundrel!" Eden rejoined: "I am quite willing to be called a scoundrel, but I won't let anybody...
...spreading over Europe. They poured into London at the rate of 1,000 a day. bought out (through June) Stratford's Shakespeare fete, booked all available accommodations for the late summer (Aug. 21-Sept. 10) Edinburgh Festival. In Madrid all hotels were filled, and at the bullfights, Americans sat in the best seats (shade). At 11 o'clock one night last week, no fewer than 75 Americans were happily throwing coins into Rome's famed Trevi Fountain, thus, according to legend, ensuring a return trip...
...industry's biggest company, the time had come to resign. Said Fairless: "There must always be room at the top of our management team for young men with young ideas and a fresh, new outlook." At that, the stockholders all got up and sang Happy Birthday, then sat down to a lunch of cold turkey, ham, salad, pie and coffee...
...industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile of rubble and jackstraws. A mannequin still sat at a kitchen table in another house, but her wig had been stripped off; it was found in the remains of the refriger ator; another dummy was skewered with jagged glass. Cars were smashed as if a monster fist had crashed down on the roof; one hood had flown...