Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There would still be you and me," and "Inspiration is what you are to me." But the inspiration is unfortunately bathetic, and the sanguine ending is a bit too Panglossian. "Thank You" does provide a needed contrast to the previous songs, amatory alacrity and citrous jeu d'chair, but its flawed beauty recalls Checkhov's reply to a plea for biographical disclosures: "If you haven't facts, substitute lyricism...
...Alan Bible, a Democrat, was the first of the seven to be called. He said "No," and the audience gasped. Other nays followed, and then Quentin Burdick, Democrat of North Dakota, cast the 51st negative vote. "That's it!" someone yelled. Agnew slumped in his big leather chair. Haynsworth had been beaten, and by a surprisingly decisive 55-to-45 margin. It was a bitter defeat for Richard Nixon, who had chosen to lay the prestige of his presidency on the line for Haynsworth. His nominee was the first to be rejected by the Senate since...
...that anything could have happened to damage them. Their names, engraved in faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House at 21 South Street. Pegasus, the winged horse, has been carved into a wooden throne chair, featured above The Advocate's motto: Dulce est Periculum. There is also another: Veritas nihil veretur, which means (I read a translation of it the introduction to this anthology) "Truth fears nothing...
Over 15 million pages of documents from the Kennedy Administration as well as some 10,000 items of memorabilia-including the President's favorite rocking chair-have already been collected for the library. The items are presently located at the Federal Records Center in Waltham, Mass., where a staff of four men is sorting them...
...higher office, and has hinted that she might run for John McCormack's seat when he retires. Kerrigan is interested in the mayoralty. The electorate is aware of these ambitions, but this awareness did not keep Kevin White, who clearly has had his eye on the governor's chair, out of the mayoralty...