Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff had prudently prepared for 200 guests; 5,000 showed up. In an atmosphere reminiscent of Andrew Jackson's inaugural at Washington in 1829, unbidden guests pressed ten deep around Magsaysay's table, watched every mouthful as it disappeared into the presidential mouth. A half dozen strangers sat down at the First Lady's table. Still others surged around a heaped buffet which in five minutes stood bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...fact that he couldn't ski did not bother Vag too much, because although it snowed everyday, most of the people said the conditions were not right. Instead they sat around in the hotel and played rhumba, samba, canasta, and bridge and drank considerable. Before long any beginner could talk skiing with the best by slipping in an occasional "christy" or "slalom...
...Ivan S. Konev. This led to a rush of speculation that Dictator Malenkov had called in the army to break Beria's secret police and that the generals and marshals henceforth must be regarded as the chief power behind the throne in Moscow. Eight Red army men also sat on the supreme court bench that tried Marshal Tukhachevsky and half a dozen other high-ranking officers in the purge...
...Favorite Husband (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). With Joan Caulfield, Barry Nelson...
...billion on construction of all types. Housewives cleaned their homes with more new vacuum cleaners (3,000,000) than in 1952, and washed their clothes with more new washing machines (3,700,000); to do the job, they bought a record $400 million worth of soap and detergents. They sat down before more new TV sets (7,000,000 v. 6,000,000 in 1952)-so many, in fact, that TV sets outnumbered telephones in six U.S. cities, and even outnumbered bathtubs in one (Chicago). They bought more food ($60 billion worth) than ever before. Per capita, Americans last year...