Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he sat down, after 48 minutes, Cannon got a standing ovation from most of the 150 Congressmen in the chamber. And it was in the face of such obviously growing sentiment for reorganization that Carl Vinson, above all else an eminently realistic politician, began backing down in his announced determination to scuttle the Eisenhower plan, started working with Nate Twining on a revision that would be acceptable both to the Administration and to Congress...
Fresh from the Mint. Dulles resisted any temptation to preen. "There he sat," said one British diplomat, "listening to men put on record what he and everyone else who knows anything about the Soviets have known since 1920. But he never gave the slightest indication of boredom. He looked as though every word he heard had been freshly minted...
...like to get a position where I would have a good chance of advancement." Last week, 75 years after he was hired as an office boy (salary: $4 a week), spry Frederick Hudson Ecker, 90, honorary board chairman of the giant ($80 billion in insurance) Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., sat through a dinner in his honor, reminisced to his audience about the company's great past. President for seven years (1929-36) and board chairman for 15 more, Ecker has worked without pay since 1938, is still consulted on big investments-and still shows no signs of retiring...
...20th floor of Manhattan's slick Coliseum Tower one bleak, humid afternoon last week, a flock of paunchy, proud fathers-to-be tried to conceal their expectancy behind a normal day's office routine. Sympathetic friends sat heavily in blue-flowered armchairs or toured a chrome-polished kitchen, which, their uneasy host boasted, was "bigger than General Sarnoff's." Then at 3 p.m. the baby was born. The baby: New York area's newest stations-WNTA A.M. and P.M., and WNTA-TV (Channel...
Tears. Politically uncalculating, Van pleased his hosts by doing what comes naturally. He never played fewer than five encores; he sat down at a piano everywhere and at the slightest provocation any hour of the day or night. He insisted on playing the whole of his Leningrad program at a rehearsal several hours before the evening concert for the benefit of conservatory students unable to buy tickets. When he visited Tchaikovsky's grave in Leningrad, he delighted his guides by taking some Russian earth back with him, plans to use it to plant a Russian lilac cutting at Rachmaninoff...