Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Lester C. (for Callaway) Hunt, 61, completed a lengthy hospital checkup, announced that because of ill health (a kidney ailment) he would not run again. One morning last week, Hunt entered the Senate Office Building, his coat partially cloaking a .22-cal. Winchester rifle. In his office, Hunt sat down in the swivel chair behind his desk and fired a shot through his brain. Four hours later, after emergency surgery failed, Lester Hunt was dead...
...sides" would meet immediately in Geneva or "on the spot" to discuss "the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces and of foreign military personnel" from both Laos and Cambodia, and report back to the conference in 21 days. The U.S.'s Bedell Smith was not even consulted, sat for four hours in his hotel waiting to hear what happened...
...Americans sat down and dealt with the Reds directly. The small U.S. party was headed by U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (and former State Department adviser on the Korean war); the Chinese group was run by Wang Ping-nan, secretary general of the Peking delegation at Geneva...
...asked to be helped into the Cadillac and driven to Mena House. There he rapped on Zouzou's door, saying, "It's me, Mustafa!" He rapped and rapped, but there was no answer. Sympathetic servants brought the old man a chair, and for another half hour Safsaf sat down and pounded in comfort...
This week the Lenin of Catalonia sat chain-smoking in a cell in Barcelona police headquarters. As an old hand at the game, he knew what came next. But at least he would die at the hands of those he had fought, not of those whom he had so long served...