Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson will be at a disadvantage against Penn as it was against Yale, because of ankle injuries to center Dick Manning and Captain Ed Krinsky. Manning sat out the game Saturday and is unlikely to play today. Krinsky sparked the team against the Elis but it is doubtful how far he will be able to go against Penn...
...Mundt sat down at a typewriter and pecked out a "Memorandum of Understanding." Its four points...
...Stevens or the White House. There was just one point to make clear: he would continue to expose Communists and crooks "even if it embarrasses my own party." And with this tight-lipped understatement, a week of throwing eggs at electric fans came to an end. The Republican Party sat down to take the omelet out of its hair and assess the damage...
While California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel praised the "unsullied" reputation of Chief Justice Earl Warren, some 40 Senators this week sat quietly in their places, then confirmed Warren by voice vote. Among those on the floor was North Dakota's occasionally Republican Senator William Langer who, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had held up Warren's confirmation for seven weeks−not necessarily out of malice, but merely to try to force the Administration to give him more patronage in North Dakota...
...spiritless neutrality" in the face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service. ("I and my four sons" were to be among its officers.) He was consistently turned down. He sat the war out, a "slacker malgre lui,'' ljut his sons went overseas with the Army as fast as he could get them there. One of them, 21-year-old Quentin, was shot down in his pursuit plane and killed...