Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's chief dilemma rose from the fact that its old status had changed, though few seemed to realize it. The U.S. still thought of itself as the peacemaker-or as the umpire on the high chair at the tennis game. But now the U.S. was down on the court, sweating, lobbing back deep smashes, sprinting to the net to dig up drop shots...
...recipient of this gratitude, affection, and inspiration eased down into a chair in St. Clair's, with the summary, "It was rather frightening...
Some typical wifely answers: "My husband sits in a chair all the time and hollers at me. . . . My husband complains about the cooking; he even swears about it. ... My husband thinks he knows all about women. . . . My husband wants to be boss...
Hulking Chet Bowles leaned back in his chair and listened patiently. Then, calmly, like a teacher going over a lesson with a backward pupil, he replied: "But, Senator, you know the farmer is doing all right. When have farm markets been so good? Or prices so high? Or mortgages...
...argument ended with both unconvinced. Chester Bowles transferred his 190 Ibs. to a more comfortable chair and grinned. To a visitor he observed, with a happy air of tense excitement: "Oh, boy, are those pressures building up! We're in for it from here on in. This is the worst...