Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination" rather than "poorly founded exaltation." Along with other NATO leaders who sat around the table, Secretary General Spaak could find little resemblance between what went on in the conference room and what was shouted in the headlines of dispute and disintegration that had rattled out of the press rooms. Said Spaak: "The double character of the alliance-defensive military effort, aggressive diplomatic...
...hundred miles northwest of overcrowded Rio de Janeiro, in airy hills 4.000 ft. high on the edge of Brazil's vast jungles, forty city planners sat at a dinner table spread with snowy linen, and one of them recited an impromptu toast to progress in building Brazil's new capital. A year before, when they landed at the site, they found just one adobe hut. There now, nearly complete, stands a six-story hotel. 500 houses, and famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer's flowing, two-story Presidential Palace, resting on 20 arched concrete columns. Chugging ahead night...
...When he sat down two years ago to turn his recollections of Mason City into rhythm and song, Willson found the going slow. His trouble: too many memories and too many tunes. He rewrote the whole show, he vows, at least 20 times, turned out 38 songs that eventually were whittled down to 17. Finally he found he did his best work about 5 a.m. "I'd wake up and lie there and suddenly something would come clear," he says...
...born 1712) had a yen for recitations, beards and baths (fresh or salt). "With commendable firmness," he would remain in the ocean "until he fainted and had to be withdrawn forcibly." At his country seat, Lord Rokeby built a bath "rendered tepid by the rays of the sun only," sat in it, reciting, with his long beard below the water line. In his declining years, he rarely left his bath, only relented on special occasions, e.g.: 1) "in order to receive Prince William of Gloucester at dinner," 2) to vote "in the general election of 1796" (Tory William Pitt...
...last week Graham's dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour's talk and wished him all success. Krishnamachari not only approved, but last week eased import restrictions on needed machinery for Graham projects and promised that all profits could be taken out of India...