Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late British psychologist Cyril Burt was eminent in his profession: he held the psychology chair at London's University College, was knighted by King George VI and won the Thorndike award from the American Psychological Association. As a government adviser, he helped restructure the British educational system in the 1940s. Now, five years after his death, Burt is the object of a growing scandal. He has been accused of doctoring data and signing the names of others to reports that he wrote. If the charges are proved true, said Science magazine last week, "the forgery may rank with that...
...organizers of the event had to order TV cameras, which were filming the antics, from the stage when they completely blocked the crowd's view of actor Dan Ackroyd cutting a chair in half with a chain...
...three specifically upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last July, there are few court maneuvers open to any legal opponents of the death penalty. White may pursue his execution even more splashily than Gilmore. He declares that he wants it to take place quickly in the electric chair as "my way of expressing my gratitude for the way justice is being preserved...
...great many of these letters consist of a kind of British banterchatter. The author of the shimmeringly exquisite Waves, writing to her artist-sister Vanessa Bell, natters on endlessly about the servant problem, her dog Shot, the difficulties of choosing chair covers, the advisability of drinking plenty of milk, and the jolly monotony of life in the Sussex country ("Leonard caught two moles this morning"). Deeper feelings blurt through only in a sentence here and there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands...
...shooting. At the end of the street is the crowning bit of make-believe, the period-piece depot that does not deal with trains at all but is Carter's headquarters, festooned with peanut wreaths and campaign paraphernalia. On the freight platform is the rocking chair where Miss Lillian, Carter's already legendary mother, gives her thousandth interview...