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Word: sat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sat on a Coke carton and coughed. "So I got sent to a hospital over there. Nearly got the flu. Most of us did. They had me in a bed by a window. I could see them building pine boxes outside. Rows of boxes waiting for us." He smiles. "I used to wonder whether the carpenter was building mine while I watched...

Author: By W.e. Wilson, | Title: The Wheatfield | 10/8/1958 | See Source »

Because Bobby's blood made a stain on the soft green wall-to-wall carpet, Diana dashed into his bedroom for a quilt to cover his body. Then, rifle loaded for the next shot of planned mercy, she sat down and waited until her mother drove up half an hour later and started up the walk. "I saw then that there was no way I could shoot her without her seeing me, and I didn't want her to see me shoot her, so I yelled at her not to come in the house. I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Pain of Boredom | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Theodore Dreiser, that shaggy old lion of American letters, sat in a library reference room reading St. Thomas Aquinas. Next to Dreiser sat Miss Fannie Hurst, author. They started to talk, and so fascinated was Dreiser by her remarks on Aquinas that he insisted on continuing the conversation even though she had to catch a plane to St. Louis. Dreiser, as Author Hurst now tells it, flew right along with her, but not before asking her husband if he had any objections. He did not. which leads Author Hurst to remark: "This throws a revealing light on my wonderful kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Purple-Prose Heart | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Comments Miss Hurst: "There I sat . . . with no words to console the massive Dreiser, who had almost missed God. He died a few months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Purple-Prose Heart | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Sisters Superior. In Gulu, Uganda, when burglar Alexander Oolo broke into a convent, six nuns jumped him, knocked him down, tied him up and sat on him until police arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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