Word: chair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked for the death penalty had the defendant been white or the guard black.* There is no evidence, however, that Harris, who was first convicted of burglary when he was 16, has ever been a fighter for civil or human rights. He was condemned to die in the electric chair on March 10, but a Mobile, Ala., district judge issued a last-minute 60-day stay of execution...
...last year's Eastern Sprints champion eight. Powerhouse junior Nancy Kerrebrock moves up to the stroke seat, senior co-captains Mizzy Stokes and Jane Roy sit six and bow, respectively, and three-year veteran Karen Messer occupies the three-seat. Susie Peterson continues her duties in the coxswain's chair...
...Wallenda devised a more complicated form of his pyramid- seven people in three tiers, six men connected by shoulder bars and one young woman perched on top on a chair, all swaying at the edge of the void, preserved only by their incredible combination of skill, balance and courage. Old Karl billed them as "the Great Wallendas," and he did his best to keep the act in the family...
Stepping so smart. Rolls, almost. Swings his butt like he's shifting gears in a swivel chair. Weight stays, sways, in his hips. Shoulders, straight, shift with the strut. High and light...
Outside, rain spattered the windows of University Hall, the highceilinged, portrait-lined administrative heart of Harvard. Inside, there was not a vacant chair in the hall's steamy conference room as some 200 members of the faculty of arts and sciences convened for a highly charged debate. The topic: a complete overhaul of the undergraduate general education curriculum, which for the past 30 years has served as a model for higher education...