Word: sat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two weeks of mounting tension, the frightening holy days ended last week?and the Shah still sat upon the Peacock Throne. Tehran was like a city that had survived a siege all but unscathed. Shops and schools were reopening, and office workers were returning to their jobs. Chieftain tanks and Russian-built armored cars, which had been in evidence everywhere, were now out of sight. Soldiers ventured into restaurants and parked their automatic weapons in corners as they ate. Locked in a monumental traffic jam, a Western diplomat sighed: "Things are back to normal in Tehran...
Hours after the burial of Jeffrey Hunter, 16, four of his classmates at Ridgewood High School sat talking about the death. Why had Hunter hanged himself? Suddenly, Christopher Mathieson, also 16, rose, said he had something to do and sped home on his moped. Sensing trouble, the other students ran to Mathieson's house. They found him hanging in a stairway closet...
...Muppet crew met Edgar Bergen, who was the guest star on one of their early shows. "When he walked into our studio in London, they all gathered around him like children. And then the box was brought in, Charlie's box, and they all sank to the floor and sat in a circle around it. And then Bergen opened the box and Charlie came out and said hello and introduced himself around. He met Fozzie, and the two of them went on and on, all ad-libbed. No one moved an inch." Later, in Holly wood, Bergen did a cameo...
Gordon fenced in place of Vastoal, who sat out while replacing coach Ben Zivkovic, who is currently in Rome. Gordon showed fine skills winning wll three of his bouts...
Fitzgibbons says, "I figured we were going to get hammered in this tournament so I memorized Physics I formulas and Baron's SAT word lists so I could horrify the opposition with susquepedalian phraseology. We were going to make them start whiffing over their inferior...