Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst (in whose presence age is not discussed) was still living out the last chapter last week. In his 84th year (his birthday is April 29), the gaunt old man with haunted eyes is no longer the whirlwind. Neither is life at San Simeon, his 275,000-acre seat of empire, where Hearst once thought nothing of entertaining 80 house guests at a time...
With so much at stake, everybody figured that there was no sense trying to get a seat in the little Evanston (ILL.) high school gym (cap. 2,500), which had been selected as neutral ground for the second half playoff. Result: only 1,500 showed up. Final score: Wisconsin 72, Purdue...
...baffling his underlings. To cite one instance out of many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue of it. Mr. Leonard took over masterfully by casually asking the suspect to move to another seat: in the process of moving the tell-tale slip of paper fell to the floor...
...Saturday morning, T.V. strode into the grey brick Legislative Yuan building. None of the waiting rank & file knew what was impending. T.V. took a seat facing them, in the center of a long curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything...
...Meat? We'll Eat - a Republican in Each Senate Seat...