Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though his resignation as Prime Minister seemed to grow more likely as the reported date for it (April 5) approached, devoted the week to a teasing demonstration that at 80 he is still the most dashing performer on the political stage. Aneurin Bevan, Labor's unruly Welshman, cockily sat by while the leaders who were going to expel him split apart and handed him a reprieve...
...beleaguered man sat in Freedom Palace, small, chunky, tan-tinted and surrounded by a few intimate possessions-a wooden crucifix, a picture of the Virgin, a slide projector, a gaudy spittoon, books entitled Social Justice and Thought of Gandhi. Before him on a shabby desk lay an ultimatum, a blunt threat to tear down the government of South Viet Nam. An odd procession passed in and out of the palace doors for hours on end to deal with the crisis-three of the man's brothers, one in the cloth of a Roman Catholic bishop; his beautiful, politics-minded...
Graham delivered his message from the flower-decked platform of Glasgow's huge Kelvin Hall. Sixteen thousand Scots sat in sirence before him and hundreds more were seeing him and listening over a TV relay near by. "I don't want anyone talking or moving for the next half hour," Billy began. Then, with voice vibrating and eyes raised toward heaven, he besought them to have faith and make their peace with God. He ended with the command: "Come to Christ." All told, 470 Scots came forward that evening to make "decisions for Christ...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). LaBoheme, with Albanese, Conley...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). The world's ten best novels, discussed by John Mason Brown, Jacques Barzun, Bennett Cerf, Clifton Fadiman...