Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Habeas Corpus. In Key West, Fla., Rupert Knowles, 368 Ibs., was excused from jury duty: nobody could find a big enough chair...
Beginner's Luck. But the big split between Jim Duff and the Grundy-Owlett group was a fight for state control which had been raging ever since Big Jim Duff sat down in the governor's chair. For years Joe Grundy had run the state through his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, founded on and dedicated to the principle that what's best for industry is best for the state. Jim Duff had another theory: that capitalism thrives best when it is not just the protector of entrenched wealth, but serves all the people equally...
...magazine Tekhnika Molodezhy (Technology for Youth) tossed off a few more sparks. Russians, reiterated Tekhnika, had invented the electric arc, the electric light, the electric motor and high-tension power transmissions. And how had the capitalist U.S. utilized these Russian gifts to mankind? By inventing the electric chair, which, "lately, has been used more & more to do away with revolutionary workers condemned to death with the assistance of dirty police provocation...
...Television). Another of the touted televaudeville shows, with Ed Sullivan in the chair. Premiere...
...last week by more than a hundred young students, who raided the hotel dining room and scratched out Rivera's little blasphemy with table knives. Rivera was dining, meanwhile, two blocks down the street. After a leisurely meal he marched over to the hotel, climbed up on a chair and painted the offending words right back in again...