Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catch a Bookie. While Section 605 has sat lumpishly on the books, serving mainly to bar wiretap evidence in federal courts, wiretapping has flourished. Technology has kept up with demand. Today a good tap sets up so little interference in the line that users do not hear it. A tapper can rig up a tape recorder and leave the scene, returning only once a day to change the tape. Induction apparatus makes it possible to tap a wire without hooking into it or even touching...
...Star Revue (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Martha Raye singing Carmen...
...13th rector of one of the oldest and oddest Episcopal parishes in the U.S. was conducting the service with which he begins his church's Christmas season. Before him, in the brown Gothic interior familiar to tourists, sat a score of the clergy, his vestrymen, and 1,200 members of the seven congregations of New York City's Trinity Parish...
Tatum for Fancies. Such mastery of the keyboard did not come easily to Oscar Peterson. His father, a music-loving porter on the Canadian Pacific Railway, sat him on a piano stool when he was five and told him to start practicing. From then on, whenever Papa Peterson left on his railroad trips, he laid out practice schedules. If the practicing was not done on his return, Oscar "caught hell." Oscar began to get professional engagements in his mid-teens, but his father never let applause and paychecks go to his son's head: "You're not going...
Unter den Linden was alive with demonstrators. Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists. It was Nov. 9, 1918. Shipwrecked in the field, rudderless at home, Germany was drifting into anarchy...