Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told us about his capture by Chinese Communists in West China after his plane was downed. His captors were putting him through a long forced march to their head quarters. In the course of time Earthquake, much better at flying than walking, became so tired that he sat down on the ground, and all efforts to get him to resume the trek were of no avail. Threatened with being shot on the spot, he wearily motioned them to go ahead and shoot him - and didn't budge. It was uncertain what the attitude at head quarters would...
Later the Government called one William Walter Cortor. A defense attorney, Mrs. Mary Kaufman, took one look at Cortor and gasped. Cortor, she told the judge in a voice trembling with rage, had sat in on a strategy meeting at her home a few nights before, when the defense discussed how to cross-examine Jones. Cortor testified that he had been filing weekly FBI reports since December...
Frau Lucie Maria Rommel, whose late swashbuckling husband, Germany's Field Marshal Erwin ("Desert Fox") Rommel, tried mightily to invade Egypt in 1942, invaded Egypt without firing a shot. In Cairo to help ballyhoo the world premiere of a new German movie That Was Our Rommel, Frau Lucie sat beside Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib at the showing, was also greeted cordially by Premier Gamal Nasser. Later she placed wreaths on war memorials to both Allied and Axis soldiers at El Alamein, where Rommel lost the crucial battle of the North African campaign...
...Netherlands' speed-loving Prince Bernhard hurtled along a Dutch road in his royal Lincoln. Bernhard's chauffeur sat at his side, idly watching the kilometers flit past. While trying to pass a road-hogging truck, the prince zigged when he should have zagged, wound up with the car doing a neat half rollover, followed by a ground-chewing landing on its side. The unperturbed chauffeur ceremoniously opened the door for unhurt Bernhard, who climbed out, hitchhiked to a gas station, phoned the royal garage for a fresh...
Horse Racing (Sat. 4 p.m., CBS). Coaching Club American Oaks, from Belmont...