Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day, at every showing, 2,000 Syrians and their neighbors from other Arab countries sat entranced watching the motion-picture scenes and Commentator Lowell Thomas, and listening to the Arabic sound track booming out on the loudspeakers. At every showing there was an overflow crowd beyond the eight-foot sheet-iron fence enclosing the outdoor theater. Spectators perched like crows high in the shadows of eucalyptus trees, stood on auto tops and rooftops. Hundreds of others, defying the laws of balance and endurance of hu man muscle, stood spread-legged on the upper bars of the steel traffic-control...
Still others sat on the terrace of a restaurant across the road, where they sipped beer and munched sandwiches, still able to see the top half of the screen and hear the sound. The restaurant's business boomed so hugely that the grateful owner sold beer to the Cinerama staff at cut-rate prices...
This week Clifford Case sat before the television cameras and quietly called the story about his sister a dirty smear. His sister, a physical-education teacher at the exclusive Kingswood School for Girls near Detroit, had flown to New York to help him draft the reply. Said Case: "The Adelaide Case mentioned by Bella Dodd was not my sister . . . The Adelaide Case Miss Dodd knew in 1943 was then a middle-aged woman . . . my sister Adelaide was only 31 at that time . . . was then teaching physical education in Boston . . . She never heard of Miss Dodd or the activities described...
...profess to tell merely 'the facts.' If a crisis is always acute and an emergency always grave, what is left for those words to do by themselves?" ¶ The Superfluous Adverb: e.g., definitely harmful, irresistibly reminded, or literally (as in the news report that Mr. Gladstone "sat literally glued to the Treasury Bench," to which Punch once added: " 'That's torn it,' said the Grand Old Man, as he literally wrenched himself away to dinner"). ¶ Verbosity in Verbs: e.g., is not prepared to, is not in a position to, does...
Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). The Follies of Suzy, with Jeanmaire, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn, Connie Russell, Paul Whiteman...