Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With White constantly at Morgenthau's elbow and ear, the Treasury Department became an important voice in wartime diplomacy, and it was a leading planner for major postwar policies. Morgenthau sat as chairman of an interdepartmental committee on postwar economic planning. White drafted the basic plan for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, set up at Bretton Woods in July 1944. It was in this connection that White's general views prevailed over those of Britain's Lord Keynes. In a meeting once, White sneeringly called Keynes "Your Royal Highness." Keynes was offended at what...
...court, and he punched the surprised man on the arm. Instantly, the lawyer leaped up, extracted a copy of the Koran from his breast pocket, and on it swore he had done no such thing. By this time Mossadegh was off on another tack, while the lawyer sat stiffly unhappy...
...middle of the fourth day, the court had sat for 17 hours, of which 14 hours were pure Mossadegh. On the seventh day, the justices retired to ponder whether they had the right to try him in the first place. They concluded that they did have the right, and returned manfully to face the next assault from Mohammed Mossadegh...
Under the old plan, Yale Athletic Association officials found week after week that the home side was filled from end zone to end zone, while across the field spectators sat only between the 30 yard lines. Hence with the former system, very few good seats were available to Yale alumni, and most of the old grads refused to make the long trip to New Haven to sit in bad ones...
...finest goal line stands in recent years prevented the Bruins from scoring and saved Jordan from a great deal of discomfiture and angry telegrams. There are still those who will question, whether Ev Pearson carried over on the last down. But they are the people who sat on the Brown side of the field...