Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asaf Ali was educated in Great Britain and Delhi, was jailed a total of eight years for his political activities in India, and has held both a ministry in the interim government and a seat in the central legislative assembly. The 58-year old lawyer met with a Hindustani student group after his talk...
WCOP has been condoning these daily polls for two weeks new, but yesterday was only the see and time they have encamped on University fringes. "Some times we realty get some pips for answers," said the controlman from his seat at the reenter sideboard...
Good Saint. Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov was given the seat with the best view, through the front windows overlooking St. James's Park and, in the distance, Buckingham Palace. Across from Molotov sat France's Georges Bidault, unobtrusive, yet bearing himself as though France were in the European ascendancy...
...Gravesend victory as stemming the Tory advance in last month's borough elections (TIME, Nov. 10). More cautious ones noted that Labor's vote in Gravesend had increased by only 3,083 since 1945, while the Tory vote increased by 8,464. "We've held the seat," said one Labor manager, "but we must heed the warning that the Tories increased their vote a good deal more. We can't afford that...
Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...