Word: sat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liddy stared at his typrwriter, inspecting it for boobytraps. It looked safe but as a precaution he stood several feet from his desk and used a fire poker to strike an "L." Satisfied, he sat down to write the first sentence of his novel...
...Liddy sat back down and contemplated figures of speech. His thoughts drifted to sex. Fantasies of French virgins brought him to new metaphorical heights--sex as photography...
...diversity" within the church to win long applause. To the priests, nuns and seminarians he expressed? an exalted view of the religious life as one of devotion to God and service to humanity. At the end of his talk they stamped, clapped, whistled and sang. Many nuns who had sat stony-faced while John Paul said that women could not be priests joined enthusiastically in the rousing ovation...
...official who sat at the nexus of all the cable traffic, it was crucial for Sisco to understand the nuances of White House thinking. First we had to find the President. With the aid of the Secret Service we tracked him to an obscure bowling alley in the basement of the Executive Office Building. Nixon calmly listened to our report and approved the recommendations while incongruously holding a bowling ball in one hand. It was one of the few occasions that I saw Nixon without a coat and tie. He said that whatever was done must succeed; he was determined...
...play like Lear as a personal vehicle, it seems a cheat to squander the resources on half-baked ideas, directorial interpretations that aren't followed through, and "innovations" that clash with each other. Cain should either have moved in and molded a Lear to his liking, or sat back and let Lebow carry the evening...