Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER spending several hours kibitzing while Bridge Expert Charles Goren and Partner Helen Sobel played against another expert partnership, TIME Contributing Editor William Bowen and Correspondent Jack Olsen sat down to get their story firsthand. On the first deal, everybody passed. On the second, Sobel bid and made two spades. "Well.'' said Olsen, "we can always say that after spending a whole bridge evening with Goren and Sobel, we were only 60 points behind." For the results of that evening and countless other hours of digging by a task force of staffers who have now lost their amateur...
...much too late for Fred Payne. He got swamped in Maine, and so did most of the Republican ticket. Next morning, fire-Adams long-distance calls poured in on Alcorn as soon as he sat down at his desk (TIME, Sept...
...first caller was Meade Alcorn, who talked for an hour while Adams sat impassively, head thrown back, looking at the ceiling, nibbling on a stem of his glasses. When Alcorn finally finished, Sherman Adams agreed to leave...
Management, while giving no ground on wages, hinted at a willingness to sweeten pensions and supplemental unemployment benefits. Peace talks went on in weekend sessions in an atmosphere both friendly and optimistic. As U.A.W. President Walter Philip Reuther himself sat down with Ford Vice President and Chief Negotiator John Bugas, both sides expressed renewed hope...
...pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered...