Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bellows was unconscious, the other two only half conscious, but Johnson was able to remember what happened next. They were carried to their car. Bellows and Johnson were put in the back seat, arranged in a position which suggested that they were in an act of perversion, and photographed by flashbulbs...
Rumpled, round-faced Américo Ghioldi, Socialist editor of the lively, clandestine weekly La Vanguardia and brother of Communist Chief Rodolfo Ghioldi, was making a strong bid for a seat as deputy from Buenos Aires. That would give him official immunity and possible relief from the police, who had dogged him ever since the 1943 revolution. It would also assure him a big pulpit for his trenchant criticism...
...moment, a pungent-looking persons wanders over and says briskly, "I'm awfully sorry, but you seem to be sitting in my seat." That's all there is to it; no protest, no appeal from this awful fact; just silent submission...
...March 1780, small, shy James Madison Jr. rode from Virginia to Philadelphia in a two-wheeled chaise to take his seat in the Continental Congress. In the next six months he ran up a boardinghouse bill of $21,373.66, spent $2,459 for liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...
Frederic D. Houghteling '50, of Washington and Leverett House, appeared at the Council table as a regular member for the first time in place of Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, who resigned his seat Friday, February 37. Last May's election returns placed Houghteling next in line after Weld. Patrick D. Dailey 50 resigned from the group because of academic pressures...