Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Searching the Wind. To Constantine's Europeans, the speech may have been a bitter disappointment. But De Gaulle was speaking to another audience too, offering them not all they wanted either, but an opening. This unseen audience sat 1,600 miles away, huddled around a conference table in a spanking new, six-story apartment building in Cairo...
...Gaulle learned otherwise on a speaker's platform six weeks ago in Conakry, when, as De Gaulle sat in icy silence. Touré thundered: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery!" That night the outraged general abruptly canceled a diner intime with Touré. Outraged in turn, Touré went all out in his campaign against the constitution. Result: more than 95% of his people voted...
...have nothing left to say, that we did all we had to do after 1945," exclaimed Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, his wiry hair flying, his sharply whittled nose pecking the air with indignation. Before him in Scarborough's Spa Grand Hall, some 1,500 Labor Party delegates sat in somber conclave last week for what all presumed would be their last annual conference before a general election in the spring...
Lennie Bernstein sat at the piano, cheerfully surveyed the recesses of Carnegie Hall and opened his mouth to sing...
...that improbable note, the once-sedate New York Philharmonic last week launched its nyth season. In effect, Lennie was trying to bring the program notes to life, using the technique that he made familiar on his Omnibus music-appreciation series. His explanation: "How many times have you sat there and had a new piece of music thrown at you by Theocritus Schwartz or John Foster Doe and longed for something that would bring the piece closer...