Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...States are admonished to draw nigh and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court." The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, convened in extraordinary session, took their places at the bench. On the right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue...
...they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them to "stay on my tail." Few could. Invariably. he sat in his cockpit eating an apple as a gesture of contempt for his foe, almost invariably evaded his pursuer before the apple was eaten...
...Many Democrats thought that it was too strong; most Republicans considered it too weak. But as labor's mess loomed high on the list of political issues for this fall's campaign, Republicans could point to the fact that it was House Speaker Sam Rayburn who had sat on the Kennedy-Ives bill for "40 days and 40 nights," thereby ruling out any real chance of its passing. The Republicans could also campaign on the fact that House Democrats had shelved a G.O.P. labor bill, stronger than Kennedy-Ives and supported by President Eisenhower and Labor Secretary James...
Waldorf suite that night, the President, Dulles and Jackson sat around a coffee table, editing the speech once more. Finally the President leaned back. Said he: "That finishes...
...Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, wish to contact the lady who sat . . ."). With Academy Secretary Humphrey Brooke, Wheeler spent long hours sifting scores of replies from families who claimed that the real model was one of their kin. "Signora Ossorio herself did not answer the advertisement," said Brooke, "but I received an anonymous phone call giving me her phone number in London." Wheeler and Brooke tracked down the new lead, found an Edie Ossorio "still fascinating, vivacious, certainly not looking her 84 years...