Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress welcomed its three new members from the 50th state. In the flip of a silver dollar to decide whether Republican Hiram L. Fong, first man of Chinese ancestry to sit in Congress, or Democrat Oren E. Long would rank as Hawaii's senior Senator, Long called heads and lost. In a draw to determine which would get the long term, Fong won again. Over in the House, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, World War II hero whose right arm was shattered by a German grenade in Italy, took his seat as Hawaii's sole Representative, became the first...
...streets and cheer Ike's arrival. German officials scurried around for a limousine large enough to squeeze an interpreter as well as a secret policeman in alongside Ike and Chancellor Adenauer, so that on the 45-minute trip from the airport the two statesmen would not have to sit in silence because neither speaks the other's language. Charles de Gaulle planned to meet the presidential jet at Le Bourget and escort Ike up the Champs-Elysees. Meticulously checking all the arrangements himself, De Gaulle scribbled beside one scheduled event, "Not good enough...
...head of a five-man Catholic contingent, explained that the Pope's first announcement had been misinterpreted; none but Roman Catholic bishops were ever to have been invited. Later, though, Pere Dumont tossed out the suggestion that some time in the future Orthodox and Roman Catholic leaders might sit down for a discussion of theological differences...
...marriage contractor in Cairo, seeing his business opportunities changing, was professionally all for it. Said he: "Like any merchandise, when it is exhibited properly, it finds a buyer. When girls sit back in their homes, nobody sees them...
...cannot sit idly by while Professor Hromadka, champion of the Communist cause, is received into Christian fellowship and honored as a great Christian leader," cried Fundamentalist Minister Carl McIntire, president of the violently antiCommunist, anti-ecumenical and minor-league International Council of Christian Churches...