Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meantime, however, the Council can do certain things to lubricate the legislative works. First, the Council needs a bigger chamber to seat all 20-odd official and ex-office members, and it needs more office assistance. However, these items may require funds which the Council does not have...
...piano is secondary. Much of its part is percussive, in keeping with a general trend of contemporary composers, but not with the real idiom of the instrument. Soulima Stravinsky appeared to handle the part in real razzle-dazzle fashion, although his playing was almost inaudible from my seat...
...Knife" is first-class melodrama, a thing that turns up too infrequently. After a poor opening scene, the situation becomes engrossing and before the end the spectator is likely to be on the edge of his seat. The ending itself is in the best Odets fashion and couldn't have been more powerful had Leo the lion devoured the hero on stage. If Mr. Odets primary purpose was to expose, in his own way, the minds that govern the film industry, he has succeeded. Marcus Hoff, of Hoff Interprises, and his henchman, very ably played by J. Edward Bromberg...
...President proved the outstanding star of a good show. Time after time, TV showed Harry Truman in a folksy moment : as he got into his overcoat after the speech on Capitol Hill, when he sat in the wrong seat in the presidential box and, with unflustered stolidity, moved to the right one. The star* even managed to give his white tie and tails the informal look of a comfortable business suit...
...four of its cars, Chrysler had increased headroom, seat width and wheel-bases, while lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...