Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clark signed alone in a tin-roofed movie hall at Munsan, the allied truce base, three hours after the Panmunjom signing, and Kim and Peng presumably signed in their own lair at Pyongyang. Behind Clark, ramrod stiff, jaws clamped tight, sat ROK Major General Choi Duk Shin. Spotting him after the signing, Clark said, "I'm glad you came." "Thank you," said General Choi...
...Canon City, Colo. (pop. 6,345) last week, 100 listeners aged four to twelve sat cross-legged on the floor around the LaSalle String Quartet. The first violinist began an explanation of the music to come: "We are like four people having a conversation, but we use our instruments instead of our voices. We start out rather quietly, but then a great argument develops. After a while we calm down again, and then each waits his turn to speak. We all have our say, and finally we are all agreed." Then the quartet put the various parts together and played...
When Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet sat down 17 years ago to write Biological Aspects of Infectious Disease, there was an abundance of knowledge about the nature of most of mankind's ills, but a dearth of specific remedies. Now, thanks to the sulfas and antibiotics, the picture is so different that Burnet, rewriting his book completely as The Natural History of Infectious Disease (Cambridge University Press; $4.50) can make the revolutionary statement: "It is not too much to say that at the present time no acute infection occurring in a previously healthy individual will result in his death...
...enormous quantity and variety of sound radio and television is available, some of which is excellent, some of which is exceedingly silly, seme of which might legitimately be described as 'horrible.' Last year, during the Republican Convention in Chicago, I sat with my head in a television set for four days. The convention coverage could not have been better done . . .There was not the smallest sign of partisanship. At intervals a personable young lady appeared to recommend a particular brand of refrigerator, but when her appearance would have interrupted a dramatic development, it was postponed . . . According...
Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Claude Rains in The Man Who Liked Dickens...