Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States and Great Britain have offered the French a seat on the council which will nominally supervise the trustees during the period before the Germans elect a government. This "concession' is practically an insult. The French see international control of the Ruhr going out of the window. They know that when the future German government takes over the industries--or leaves them in the hands of cartels--Germany will become the most powerful nation on the Continent, outside of Russia...
...regarding the AVC Convention in Cleveland contained . . . one gross error. Your article reported that 11 New York chapters of AVC were ousted for supporting Wallace's opposition to the Marshall Plan. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The chapters were suspended (not ousted) because they had voted to seat, on a local council, an AVC member who had previously been suspended for appearing on a program of the American Labor Party as a representative of AVC, in contraversion of AVC's firm policy of political neutrality. Neither the Marshall Plan (which we support) nor any other political issue...
...Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...
Last of all, thanks to the powers concerned for no seating arrangements in middle and upper group courses. For the first time since its inception, co-education is proving its worth. This is no reason to slight the dark meat, plum pudding, and everything else in a Thanksgiving dinner--that would be foolish indeed. But before all men leave their classes and Gather Together, let there be praise, blessings, and amens for the kind official who permitted the Radcliffe girl to choose a seat and neighbor. This is reason for heartfelt thanksgiving...
Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...