Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone knows who ever sat back waiting for the worst, a dentist's chair is not the place where a patient feels at his most masterful. "Whatever you say, Doc," is a customary attitude. But it also can be an invitation to painful larceny, both petit and grand, or so says a dentist named Melvin Denholtz...
...Book Award for his monumental biography of Henry James (2,152 pages in five volumes). He has also edited two volumes in a series of James' letters as well as his collected plays. A longtime (1949-72) professor at New York University, where he held the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters, Edel is now teaching in a post-retirement position at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. But he journeyed to Dartmouth for the summer session, a regular academic term in the college's new full-year calendar, for a special purpose: to inaugurate...
...counters. Not to worry. Now that Brinkley is returning to Washington, from a New York he has never felt at home in, NBC is building two new stage-sets-one for Brinkley in the capital, another for John Chancellor in New York. Neither will have a desk, only a chair. NBC also plans to concentrate more on the day's top story and on business news...
...that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over his eye, his arm in a sling and his foot all bound up and stretched out on a chair...
Bombs exploded and demonstrators round the world marched in protest on Aug. 23, 1927, the day Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in a Massachusetts electric chair. In the half-century since, the case of the "good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" has continued to stir men's passions. Generations of Americans have wrangled bitterly over whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been...