Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges for the American Heritage's dictionary have decreed the death penalty for all who use like as a conjunction [Aug. 22], a hangman's noose would have been the appropriate end for Elyot, Shakespeare, Smollett, Southey, Newman, Washington Irving, Darwin and William Morris (of Morris chair fame, not the dictionary's editor). Edmund Spenser should perhaps have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members of the industrial-military...
...Georgia Democrat lives alone in a frugal one-bedroom apartment across from the sumptuous Watergate apartment-house complex. He breakfasts early at the Senate and works a twelve-hour day. A bachelor, Russell could dine at prestigious tables every night, but would rather go home to his favorite rocking chair. Says a friend: "Give him grits and a hamburger and he's happy...
...case. The ten other surviving members of the Chappaquiddick party could be subpoenaed. It would be extremely difficult, however, for the court to compel those out of state to appear. Kennedy's friends Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan, both lawyers, might attempt to avoid the witness chair on the ground that they had acted as Kennedy's counsel...
...senior partner in Loeb, Rhoades & Co.) and a multimillionaire at 71, Erpf is regarded as one of Wall Street's most secretive and successful adventurers, risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in quixotic, unpredictable enterprises, among them New York magazine. There is a $500,000 chair endowed in his honor at Columbia University, and another-of the wooden, folding variety-bearing his name at New York's Theater for Ideas, an intellectual audience-participation forum, of which he was a founding member. Four years ago, he married a woman less than half...
...chair, the Doris Zemurray-Stone-Radcliffe Professorship, was established in 1918 for a distinguished woman scholar in any academic field. Helen Maud Cam, the authority on English constitutional history, was the first holder of the chair...