Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again quoting your story, "In 1944, long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of the tax bill. He resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example." The afternoon the veto reached the Senate, my brother, the late Senator Bennett Champ Clark, and his deskmate and close friend, Senator Byrd, called upon Senator Barkley . . . When Senator Barkley arose in the Senate to make the speech that ended with his resignation, he had already been assured by Senators Byrd and Clark that they...
...eyed McCarthy, his lame right arm still in a sling, lumbered into the hearing room, followed by his wife Jean. South Dakota's Karl Mundt had just sworn in the day's first witness, a onetime FBI undercover source named Herman Thomas. For twelve minutes, Chairman McCarthy sat mute. Then he ambled...
...platform were Communist Bosses Malenkov and Khrushchev and Marshals Bulganin and Voroshilov. Beside Molotov. under a placard proclaiming, in French and Russian. Franco-Russian friendship, sat French Communist Poet Louis Aragon. Blustered Molotov: "We shall not be caught napping by ratification of the Paris agreements ... If need be, the Soviet Union will demonstrate its right and the righteousness of our cause. The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic and the People's Democracies have such manpower, and enjoy such support abroad, that there is no force in the world that could arrest our progress along...
...foundry floor, to guide his big, metal-toting crane. His co-workers rapped their hammers on stanchions to gain his attention, then motioned what they wanted him to do. The incoming relief operator scrawled necessary messages on the crane walls. At teatime, while the others horsed around, Hewitt sat alone in his crane...
...including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing...