Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point your first small burst of energy is over and you retire to your chair and wait; when the fish bites the bob and the flag are pulled into the water and begin waving vigorously. Then you have to unlock the fish and rebait the hook. "Bobhouse fishing," a popular variant of this sport, requires a little hut which you erect over the hole so as to keep warm while watching the red flag for action...
Communist armies stood outside Nanking last week. Nationalist troops gave no sign of preparing to defend the Yangtze. Nanking's sprawling government buildings were almost empty. A coolie, asleep in a ministerial chair, opened one eye and told a stray English caller: "Minister, he gone two days now. Not know where...
...that once when his little daughter was prattling innocently about "the fertility of rabbits" she noticed one of her father's blue eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded Doyle with much the same horror when, as early as 1900, he bombarded them with demands for reforms that seemed absurd to British Blimps: rifles (instead of sabers and lances) for British cavalry, foxholes for infantry...
Inside, while Federal Judge Harold Medina rocked comfortably in a high-backed chair, the defendants' seven lawyers ranted, sobbed and barked up every legal alley...
...Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed the British delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing to sit in a pseudo-parliament of this nature," he cried. "It is paradoxical that the mother of parliaments should propose the formation of such an authoritarian assembly...