Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
Khrushchev had been forced to go through the pretense of deference while Bulganin sat down to talk with Eisenhower and the other heads of government. Now Khrushchev could dispense with stooges and talk man to man-and nimble-witted Nikita Khrushchev would like nothing better than such a talk with Ike Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan...
While ballerinas floated through the intricacies of Black and White, the ballet's choreographer. Russian-born Serge Lifar, 53, sat shaking with rage in a box beside France's No. 1 model. Marie-Hélene Arnaud. Lifar angrily told his friends he had forbidden his ballet to the marquis because it was the exclusive property of the Paris Opéra, where Lifar is the top choreographer and dancing master...
...student (at the Juilliard School of Music), Fred Begun, 29, currently the regular tympanist for the National Symphony. "I suggested five drums jestingly," says Begun (four drums is the usual orchestral maximum). Composer Parris. who has turned out a sizable quantity of chamber music, took the jest in earnest, sat down to write a piece which would test the "untapped melodic resources" of the drums. The technical problems, he discovered, were sizable. Examples: how to pass rapidly from one drum, fortissimo, to another, without the resonance of the first canceling out the pitch of the second (part of the solution...
...Walter Reuther stepped briskly along the fifth floor of General Motors' Detroit headquarters, blinked at photographers' flash bulbs and wheeled into pastel-colored conference room No. 5-202. There, trading handshakes and he-man jokes with 13 deputies of his own U.A.W. and 15 G.M. bargainers, he sat down to hammer out the auto industry's first new labor contract since 1955. Cracked Reuther to G.M. Vice President Louis G. Seaton, as he slipped behind a chipped wooden table: "Well, it's the same old table." Grinned Seaton: "We can't afford...