Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-dipped smilax, pink lights winking among the leaves, for the 19th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. On stage, young ladies dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall tapers, curtsied, and made their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years and was, she guessed, "the sole support of several people." Now, as head...
...address myself to fellow patriots . . . It is only by accident that it is I who make this appeal to you. Forget the personality of the Premier and think only of the country." The M.R.P. sat silent, unmoved...
...Long Night. At midnight Mendes asked a vote on the treaty provisions which authorized German rearmament and admission to the Western European Union. The M.R.P. demanded a recess. For three hours Mendes confidently sat on the front bench scanning newspapers while the M.R.P. conferred. de Menthon argued for an outright vote against, instead of abstention. Bidault agreed...
...before Christmas, the vote on German rearmament was announced: "Rejected by 259 for, 280 against." Mendes, sitting with his hands clutching one knee, barely moved. The Communists clapped. The rest of the Assembly sat in stunned silence. From the back benches came an audible whisper: "Perhaps that was going too far." Coldly and scornfully, Mendes told the Assembly: "You have just emitted a vote which is bad for the country." To repair what damage he could, he demanded immediate votes on other Paris agreements...
...terrible wartime days as a partisan fighter against the Nazis, Dedijer watched his first wife die in combat at his side, and was so shot up himself that a large part of his skull is surgical silver. After the war he edited the official party newspaper, Borba, sat in the Yugoslav delegation in the U.N., and generally proved himself one of the most promising of the brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. His official biography of Tito so closely reflects Tito's thoughts that it reads more like...