Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week in the cavernous Senate Caucus Room, the 153-member Democratic Platform Committee rose to welcome him. Kennedy, sensing their readiness to hear him, gave the moment his best effort. Perched on the edge of his chair and leaning into the audience, his voice booming out, his hand slicing back and forth, he gave his views on domestic and world issues. He finished to a prolonged ovation. Intoxicated for the moment by the look and the sound of him, many members seemed almost eager to embrace the dangers of his candidacy...
...seems like yesterday's come round again. Paul McCartney sits alone, stage center, angling slightly forward in a straight-backed chair as he holds his six-string Ovation guitar, playing the first sinuous chords, softly easing into the familiar words...
Among those asking for immediate debate, Doebele said, was Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, who turned over the chair to Charles W. Harris, chairman of the Landscape Architecture Department, because of the administrator's involvement in the Hartman dispute...
Sharp Spikes. The sideshow barkers extolled their wares: "Miss Delilah, the girl who thrives on electricity and smiles when we push the switch on her very own electric chair," and "El Diablo, the king of fire, the human volcano," and "the human blockhead who loves to pound large sharp spikes and razor-tipped awls into his skull...
Catholics are still adjusting to another reform, the "new" rite of penance, renamed the sacrament of reconciliation, which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession...