Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Alger Hiss will have his chance to sit in the witness chair...
...Washington courtroom clung to their seats like grim death, eyes riveted on slim, black-haired Judith Coplon. After seven weeks of sitting by, as loud-mouthed little Defense Attorney Archie Palmer contested espionage charges against her, Judy was going to take the stand. She pushed back her chair at the defense table, walked a few feet, and knelt beside her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Coplon, a black-clad, sorrowing woman...
...week, under questions, Chambers sat in the witness chair while Stryker tried to destroy his credibility, tried to rattle him, taunted him. Through it all Chambers, ex-Communist and former espionage agent, sat with a kind of melancholy serenity, hands folded in his lap, occasionally stroking one cheek. Stryker, in savage crossexamination, had already raked over Chambers' moral character as a young man (TIME, June 13). Last week, like a leopard on the prowl, Stryker hunted through Chambers' spoken and already recorded words for inconsistencies. Sometimes Stryker had help in the hunt from no less a person than...
...resigned as coach for the New York Giants (where he had won fame in the '20s as a hard-hitting, base-stealing second baseman) to become manager of the tottering Chicago Cubs. He replaced another Dutchman, Charlie Grimm, who was nudged upstairs into a vice president's chair. Since winning a wartime pennant under Grimm, the Cubs had become tame as kittens. They finished in the National League cellar last year for the first time in 23 years and were still struggling to stay out of last place last week. That Frisch could lift them...
Some of the miners wanted to kill their captives. Mrs. O'Connor stood on a chair, tried to convince the miners that the foremen were not responsible for Lechin's banishment. She got nowhere...