Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last dictator in South America sat in his ramshackle, century-old Asunción palace, weighed his chances of survival and decided last week that they lay in loosening his iron grip. After five years, poker-playing Lieut. General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, 46, announced a turn toward democracy...
...problem of comparing this statistical "smartness" with that of students admitted to the 'Cliffe is accentuated by Radcliffe's traditional tight-lipped policy on SAT scores. "Radcliffe has no mathematical formula for choosing students, as most men's colleges do," Constance Pratt, 'Cliffe admissions director, explains...
Twelve students began the long bout of learning with Rabbi Henry Guterman, and twelve sat down with him last week to celebrate with a banquet. But Don Shapiro is the only member of the original group left. He has seen his rabbi's reputation grow: universities everywhere turn to Rabbi Guterman for interpretation of difficult passages in the Law; Manhattan's Yeshiva University conferred an honorary doctorate of divinity on him last year...
...smitten that he followed Lenore whenever she went out with another boy, sat behind them in a movie or trailed their car. When she starred in a high-school play that involved kissing a boy, he insisted that there be no kiss at rehearsals, stuck around to make sure. "Sometimes I wondered if he was right for me," says Lenore, "but gradually I understood. He really cared...
...story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...