Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Dwight Eisenhower moved quickly down the main aisle of the United Nations' General Assembly chamber, nodding and smiling at the applause. He mounted the central dais, sat down on the high-backed blue chair that the U.N. brings out for special visitors. Introduced by New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro. president of the General Assembly, President Eisenhower stepped up to the dark green marble lectern, laid down an open notebook, and began his first United Nations address since his historic Atoms for Peace speech five years ago. In 1953 the President stirred hearts and minds with...
...enlistment-the first man, the Navy pointed out, who had ever re-enlisted at the North Pole. Eleven new crewmen got their qualification on nuclear submarines. And as they headed on from the Pole, the 116 crewmen-the most men ever assembled at the North Pole at one time-sat down to a meal of steak, French fries, creamed peas and carrots, fresh fruit salad and a North Pole cake that signified their first celebration. Inscription on the cake: SUBMERGED POLAR TRANSIT...
Sheriffs from a dozen neighboring counties sat together in the courtroom to show their regard for lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Buster Treloar. Encouraged, Sheriff Treloar admitted on the stand that he had rapped Daniel once to make him behave after his arrest for bootlegging and speeding, and that in the jail he had tapped Daniel three or four times on the shoulder and buttocks. Sure, he also nudged him with a toe to sit up for Dr. McMillan. Argued one of Treloar's four attorneys: "You are not trying him for whipping somebody. You're trying...
...former President Herbert Hoover sat down in his "comfortable monastery," a 31st-floor apartment at Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, tallied up the work of another twelvemonth in retirement. The strenuous score: 30 speeches delivered, 55,952 letters answered, 22,952 miles traveled by car and air (including a trip to the Brussels' Fair), one hefty book (The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) published. Working ten to twelve hours daily seven days a week, backed up by four busy secretaries and a research assistant, Hoover even mixed business with a favorite recreation, trolling for the bait-shy Florida bonefish...
...week. Oldtimers still remember his style. "This is Jack Buh-Buh-Buh-Boo Paar, your announcer," he would croon, or "This is your young and popular announcer, Bing Paar." He kept a discarded microphone in the attic at home. It was hooked up to nothing, but he sat before it by the hour, reading aloud from plays, books, magazines. At 18 he left home and began to bounce around the country on his own, handling microphones in Indianapolis, Youngstown. Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Buffalo. He was married by then, for the second time to the same girl, and for the second time...