Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal courtroom in Manhattan sat the tall man in the neat suit, motionless but intent. Beside him sat his wife. For the better part of three days last week the eyes of the pair-Alger and Pris cilia Hiss-were fixed on the man in the witness chair...
...contemptuously interrupted. "Fictitious representatives of a fictitious government," he snarled at Tsiang. The true representatives of China, he cried, were the Chinese Communists. Russia would not debate charges made by Kuomintang "pygmies.'' Then he packed his briefcase, waved his deputy foreign minister., Jacob A. Malik, to his chair and stalked out of the conference room into the corridors, arm-in-arm with Czechoslovakia's Vladimir Clementis...
Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, will chair the meeting and will lead the audience discussion period following the talks...
...Dwyer and slender, pretty Sloan Simpson, thirtyish ex-model, had willingly and smilingly posed for photographers wherever they went. To a reporter who asked if a wedding was in the offing, O'Dwyer had coyly replied: "I'll discuss that after election." Then, leaning back in his chair, he had whistled Some Enchanted Evening...
...Each His Own. In Little Rock, Ark., the court awarded Mrs. Ruth Whitney a divorce and 231 household items, gave her husband "one rocking chair and one handmade doghouse...