Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observe the home life of the Chinese delegation I went to dinner at one of their hotels. As they came into the dining room, three men and a woman sat at one table: another group of three men sat next to them. One of these, I felt certain, was the Chang Wen-chin I had known in Nanking. I had seen him get out of the car with Chou, and his picture was in the Paris Herald Tribune with Chou...
...Washington was a Republican town, and, therefore, there was no Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. At least that was the explanation Democrats gave themselves last week as they sat down to the 1954 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner-in Washington. In the Mayflower Hotel, ballroom, 1,450 Democrats, each of them $100 the poorer for the privilege, agreed that Republicans know nothing about running a government...
...twelfth day, Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens sat, grey-faced, before the stare of the television cameras. Across a crouched pack of news photographers, he faced the glower of Senator Joe McCarthy. The Secretary's right eye blinked irregularly and his right cheek twitched as he tried to follow the curves and hooks in McCarthy's questions. Using all of his formidable tricks of crossexamination, the Senator was trying to confuse the Secretary into a key admission: he wanted Stevens to say that McCarthy & Co. had never "threatened" the Army in an effort...
...Harvard scholarship in his pocket. "The night before I was to leave for Harvard Law School," he recalls, "my father and I went out back to attend to our needs before we went to bed, and then he got a drink of water at the pump and sat down stiffly. I knew that meant I was to sit down...
Mimeograph Message. One of the master dissemblers of the age, Chou En-lai sat, urbane and self-possessed, among the powers at Geneva this week to make war with talk of peace. A dark blue tunic encased his widening but still trim, erect body. The grace of his carriage, the slim, expressive hands and the dark-browed handsomeness of his face belied the man's age (55) and the ugliness he had helped impose on mankind. Chou...