Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presiding over a 122-man business advisory committee meeting on foreign-trade policy in Washington last week, nodded toward the heavy eyebrows and invited John L. Lewis to say a few words. John L. rose, surveyed the businessmen surrounding him, and talked for 30 minutes without pause. When he sat down, his audience gave him the heaviest applause of the afternoon. Reason: without ever mentioning the horrid word "tariff," Lewis had managed to roll together all the old demagogic arguments against free trade and give them a fine, patriotic ring...
Navarre's proudest exploit in those delicate days when the French were Germany's captives came later, when he openly radioed information on German sea movements to the British on Malta, then sat back to await the fireworks. R.A.F. squadrons sped west from Malta and in minutes destroyed two-thirds of the 15th Panzer Division, destined for Rommel's Afrika Korps. Admiral Darlan got wind of this feat and sent Navarre to Vichy, where he was kept under surveillance. He soon escaped into the underground-thanks to a guard who became his friend (and later became...
...clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent of "Give 'em hell, Salem!" At his elbow sat Premier Mohammed Naguib, offering encouragement...
Europe's racing fans know Ascari's exploits as well as the U.S. does those of Babe Ruth. The man himself is harder to know. A sinewy, self-possessed man with a burning spirit and wrists of steel, he first sat behind a wheel at the age of five, perched on the knee of his racing-driver father, Antonio Ascari. Growing up, he raced anything he could get his hands on-spitting little motorbikes, stock Fiat sedans, then sporty, 150-m.p.h. Maseratis. Finally, in 1947, Ascari won his first big-time race at Modena, and other drivers have...
...hand, which flashed with a diamond bracelet containing 812 diamonds, he announced that before the end of the 20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...