Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Neil McElroy took his seat in the target chair before the House Armed Services Committee. Studying him with trained marksmen's eyes sat the 37-man committee, headed by Georgia's Democrat Carl Vinson. Congress' No. 1 anti-reorganization man. Purpose of the hearing: to fire a few range and windage rounds at McElroy and the Administration's defense reorganization plan...
Director Jan Hartman might, to good effect, have sat down hard on most of the members of his supporting cast: When the principals are off-stage, Robert Johnston's blessed quietude is the eye in a hurricane of overacting. Otherwise, Mr. Hartman has done a good job: his occasional attempts at comic business are almost uniformly successful. JULIUS NOVICK
...King of Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children each morning in The King...
...political pals, buttered up the proper Republicans, and helped push through a bill setting up the Brooklyn Sports Center Authority. Governor Harriman, sometime 8-goal polo player, hustled down to Brooklyn, signed the measure at Borough Hall with the gallant announcement, "I am a Dodger fan." Walter sat back to savor the glorious future. The truth was that he was starting the longest fall downstairs in the history of American comedy...
...audience received Mlle. Boulanger with a standing ovation, which it repeated at the end of the concert; but Mlle. Boulanger, in a final gracious gesture, sat down at the piano, and refused to rise until the musicians rose to share the applause with...