Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincere a leader of this country. The ideals for which he stood and fought will live always if we are intelligent enough to preserve them. At the coming San Francisco parley, may the leaders of the conference remember these ideals. To insure this, I humbly suggest they put another chair at the table-to remain there for Roosevelt. Let it be a material reminder to them and the world of the things for which this great man stood...
President Harry Truman was sitting in a cane-backed swivel chair, one elbow resting on the Presidential desk. He wore a double-breasted blue suit with a World War I discharge button in his left lapel...
...Smith, an old-fashioned politico with a sugar-scoop coat and flowing black bow tie, who was soon to become U.S. Senator. In 1907, Smith bought the Herald. The morning after his purchase he walked into the office and found young Arthur Vandenberg sitting in the editor's chair. "I'm here to stay," said Reporter Vandenberg. He stayed - for 21 years...
...solid mayoral chair sat Oberbürgermeister Alfred Freiberg, his sightless eyes fixed on the carved ceiling. In armchairs beside him, waxen-faced in death, sat his matronly wife and bespectacled daughter. In an adjoining room Stadtkämmerer (City Treasurer) Kurt Lisso, his wife and daughter also sat in poisoned death. The rigid bodies of four Volkstürmers sprawled in other offices. Two, it was plain, had sat across a table, sipping brandy until one had drunk enough to pick up a machine pistol, shoot his comrade and then himself...
...personage addressed, wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...