Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of 140 Eskimos in bright-colored shirts, the women with children slung on their backs, sat attentively in a little wooden schoolhouse at Rankin Inlet on the icebound coast of Hudson Bay. Before them. Anglican Bishop Donald Marsh solemnly intoned: "It apper-taineth to the office of a deacon, in the church where he shall be appointed to serve, to assist the priest in divine service ..." Armand Tagoona, 35, was being ordained the first Anglican deacon in the eastern Arctic...
...came an overwhelming majority of Little Rock's 13,000-member-P.T.A. council. When the P.T.A. at one grade school invited Attorney Amis Guthridge of the White Citizens' Council to state his pro-Faubus case, Guthridge merely grumbled a few words to the packed auditorium and sat down. Later he called the meeting "a trap," spoke darkly of "leftwing" P.T.A. leaders rigging "Communist-like demonstrations" at other schools. Such old saws cut no ice. What parents clearly preferred was the stand taken by Russell H. Matson, one of the moderate board members: "If we keep...
...Sat., May 23 The Jack Benny Hour (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Visitors include Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews and Phil (Sergeant Bilko) Silvers...
Most of the men were newly arrived Italians. When Bowman started classes, "they sat before me like children and listened intently while I began the English language with the ridiculously simple statement, 'This is I, that is you.' " Suspicion quickly vanished; said one hard-muscled student as Bowman struggled to look professorial: "We wid you, teacher...
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