Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoes & Songs. He quickly proved that he had not forgotten his Punjabi mother tongue nor his Sikh traditions. Entering holy temples, he took off his shoes, tied a kerchief around his head (to compensate for the absence of his long-shorn Sikh beard), hugged bewhiskered Sikhs with greetings of Sat Sri Akal (God Is Truth), sang devotional songs and quoted Sikh scriptures (while his U.S.-born wife and daughter, sari-clad, observed custom by sitting with the women in congregations...
Pickett has not decided between juniors Tom Hill and Dick Sullivan for 177 lbs. Sullivan was undefeated as a freshman, but sat out last year...
Five O'Clock Shadow. Nixon went straight to the White House next morning, sat in on a round of conferences, talked to President Eisenhower for about 15 minutes, slipped out a back door of the White House just in time to get to a luncheon for Mohammed V at Anderson House. Then he rushed to the Capitol, tried to get in a few minutes of undisturbed work in his unnumbered Capitol office. He realized that he had better get shaved for another dinner with Mohammed V (Nixon's heavy blue beard, the delight of cartoonists, was showing five...
Cads & Cows. On Friday, having sat for four days through a series of official meals (no pork, in accordance with Moslem law), King Mohammed and his party, including two sons, a brother, no wives, headed for Texas. He was met at the airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King...
...tasteful TV funeral and such sponsor-selected eulogies as "Gramps's gone. Everybody loved him," and "He was a grand old man." And Timmy was allowed to get on his knees again to beg God to "take good care of Gramps in heaven." At his side, whimpering mournfully, sat Lassie,* a middle-aged pro of five, still willing to nuzzle through another few lucrative years on TV for the tots...