Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here sat the Committee on Foreign Aid And worked like hell, while the others played...
...bigger cities, garbage piled high in the streets. Paris had neither subways nor bus lines, and at its railroad terminals, thousands of tourists, including many Americans, sat on their suitcases and fumed. "I'm sick to death of these unstable countries," said an angry Englishwoman. "From now on I will never leave British soil...
Both boats are the belles of Seattle and are owned by Car Dealer Stanley Sayres, 57. Five years ago, he sat down with a boatbuilder and a designer to work out a radical craft that would ride as much on air as on water, yet be controllable. The result was Slo-Mo IV, which the Detroiters have now grudgingly copied; but, as this week's race proved, they have not yet caught up with Stan Sayres. Throwing up a saucy rooster tail of white spray as she churned round & round the 3¼-mile course, Slo-Mo IV rubbed...
Spokesman Gilbert, a World War II Army corporal, stood up to say that he was "seriously concerned" because MacArthur held no Remington stock. "We think." said Gilbert, "that all directors, including the distinguished American who is presiding, should own stock." General MacArthur snapped: "Will you sit down?" Gilbert sat down...
...decisive moment for Operation North Pole came at 2 p.m. on March 15, 1942. At that moment H. M. G. Lauwers, a Dutch agent of British Intelligence, sat in a German police headquarters near The Hague with his hand on the radio key that was his link with London. The Germans wanted to make the link theirs; Lauwers, recently arrested, had agreed to cooperate. Suspecting that Lauwers might doublecross them, the Germans were ready to jam the signal at the first misplaced dot or dash. But Lauwers had no intention of straying from his captors' text; his British instructions...