Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sequence of Things." The day after Senate debate on the bill began last week, the Republican Policy Committee sat down in the Senate Secretary's office and heard the bad news: they were half a dozen votes short of enough to push their bill through; the George amendment would carry. New York's Irving Ives, while he promised to stick with the party, grumbled that the G.O.P. was going to take a licking come November if it did not do something for the "little fellow." A number of other Republicans, especially those up for re-election this year...
...Soviets also promised to return the eleven tons of gold they have owed the National Bank of Iran since World War II. With cynicism born of long experience, Teheran sat back, waited for the gift horse to bite...
Politics around the Cooper household was all-pervading, absorbed by osmosis from infancy, and Judge Cooper inculcated his children with an iron code of honor and a sense of unaffected friendliness for less fortunate neighbors. Often, when he sat down to a heaping dinner, the judge would dispatch one of the boys to a back-alley neighbor with a tray of food from his own table...
When Candidate Ike Eisenhower invaded Louisville, he forgot to make any mention of Cooper in his big speech until after he sat down. He corrected his omission by jumping up to the microphone with a perfunctory endorsement. Cooper labored diligently, and when the final tally was in, Ike had lost Kentucky by 700 votes, and John Sherman Cooper had carried the state with a solid 29,000 majority...
Stage Show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS). A new variety series, with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey...