Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the governor sat down, amid cheers, his listeners still did not know whether he intended to run. But they did know that he intended to set the tone.,of the Republicans' 1954 campaign in New York, and that it would be anything but soft...
...Rafael Lacson was the undisputed boss of Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines. He sat in the governor's chair and, allied with the big sugar planters, ran a tight police state. The province's 200.000 voters did as Lacson bade and so did the under paid farm workers. If anyone stepped out of line in Negros Occidental, he answered either to the planters' private armies or to Lacson's own bullet-hard, radio-equipped constabulary. In 1949 a few foreign correspondents flew in to inspect this little dictatorship; Governor Lacson turned them...
...been college classmates: they had been "more than friends-like brothers." The judge began to tremble but managed to say: "However, circumstances arise when the loyalty of friendship must give way . . ." Tears streaking his cheeks. Judge Enriquez then handed the decision to the clerks to continue reading and sat back in his chair, sobbing. The clerk faltered over the sentence; the judge shouted for him to continue, and the clerk went on: for 22 defendants, including three mayors, three police chiefs and Lacson, death in the electric chair...
Emperor Hirohito, Son of Heaven, last week took his first airplane ride. Dressed in light blue with a red polka-dot tie, he sat diffidently through the flight in a curtained-off compartment opposite his little, moonfaced Empress Nagako and pored studiously over an airline map, nodding from time to time as a stewardess announced the landmarks passing below...
Propped up by a traction device, the boss of Borg-Warner Corp.'s Norge Division sat in bed at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital last week, a telephone at his side and papers spread out in front of him. All morning 54-year-old Judson S. Sayre took calls, received visitors and dictated letters at a rapid clip. At noon, with his neck in a brace, he left the hospital for his office, returned later in the afternoon to finish up his 15-hour workday...