Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decker dispensed with me by saying,"John Barrymore left less than a minute ago. He was sitting right there," and pointed to a still-warm chair. I coveted the chair and sat on it in a feminine trance...
...dazzling spring afternoon last week, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower joined 27,000-odd other Washingtonians at Griffith Stadium for the opening baseball game between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees. They sat on either side of old (84) Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, and the President satisfied tradition by throwing out the first ball of the season.- On his left hand, he wore a fielder's mitt which Griffith handed him. Ike, using an odd type of knuckle grip, threw the ball to Yankee Pitcher Johnny Sain so quickly that some photographers missed it. "One more...
...chief was speechmaking in Trenton, NJ. when his dismissal was announced. He got the official word by telephone from Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams an hour later, and dutifully sat down in his hotel room to write the requested resignation. A new acting commissioner, Norman P. Mason, a Massachusetts lumber dealer, was named to head FHA before Hollyday's resignation reached Washington...
...defied his party's leader. The Asia agreement, he cried, was "a surrender to American pressure," and it "will be deeply resented by the majority of people in Great Britain." The agreement was framed, he went on, "for the purpose of imposing European colonial rule." Behind him, Attlee sat white and tense...
...hear a roar and suddenly everyone was standing. When I struggled up most of the players and the crowd were gazing wistfully over the left field fence, and a player was rounding second base. A pall had settled over the crowd, clearly meaning a homerun by the visitors. Everyone sat down...