Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, the state of Louisiana tried to kill Willie Francis. The stuttering, roundheaded Negro boy had killed a man in a $4 holdup. But something went wrong with the state's portable electric chair. The current "only tickled" Willie. He got up, the only man on record to walk away from Louisiana's electric chair after the switch had been thrown...
...world was the narrow cell in the New Iberia jail, where he waited for the talk to end. Finally it did. Willie had to go back to the chair. His lawyer came to tell him that he thought he could still get another stay, but Willie said: "No, leave it alone. Thank you, but leave it alone. I'm ready...
...opponents of control had pushed through an amendment permitting any local government to kill controls whenever it wished. Then a motion to send the whole bill back to committee was approved. But at the last minute, Majority Leader Charlie Halleck rushed to the chair to postpone announcement of the results, swung enough votes to save the bill...
...years passed, ten more statues of Sarah and John M. Davis were set up in the tomb. There was Sarah as a young wife and Sarah as an old wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...