Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Henry's original tow consisted of an ancient Chevy, a tripod of two-by-fours and a length of rope. The Chevy, reduced to three wheels, sat at the bottom of the hill and provided the motive power. The rope ran around the car's tireless rear wheel, up the hill, around the fourth wheel which was mounted on the tripod, and back. By the following January, the tow had been refined by the addition of idler wheels and the substitution of a Ford tractor as power...
...Madrid hotel fortnight ago, 90 prominent Spaniards sat down to a dinner duly registered with the police as a monarchist lawyers' meeting to discuss professional technicalities. In fact, many of the diners were not lawyers at all, and at least one was noted for republican sympathies. And when the speeches began, the technicalities of Spanish law were hardly mentioned. While police observers sat by, pencils racing, Joaquin de Satrústegúi, a wealthy Basque lawyer, launched into a go-minute attack on the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Franco, declared Lawyer Satrústeg...
...generations, was in a particularly palsied state in the 1840s. Sniffed a young Brooklyn Eagle critic named Walt Whitman: "Bad taste carries the day with hardly a pleasant point to mitigate its coarseness." New York's Park Theater, for one, was fast approaching the day when patrons sat on bare benches, watching rats fight the actors for stage center...
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...institutionalized series of orgies (or "horror shows," as most sophomores called them) at Holder Court. At about 1 p.m. the sophomores began milling around in the muddy courtyard; by 2, the clubs had shepherded most of them into their respective headquarters, in nearby dormitory suites, where they sat, each clutching a can of beer, either content with their bids in hand or desperately trying to negotiate their way into a club...