Word: seat
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...same cloud of outrage and optimism that has been wrapped around him all year, Gingrich took to the phones on the afternoon of Election Day still predicting that the President would be made to pay for his sins and that the Republicans would pick up six to 30 seats. But as the hours passed, the numbers just kept getting worse, and by 10 p.m. the Republicans were barely breaking even in the House. Then another seat looked vulnerable. Then seven more. Then, around 10:45, 13 seats. "At that point, we thought we lost the House," one said later. When...
RETIRING. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, 71, from his New York Senate seat; in 2000; after four terms. The scholar-legislator served under four Presidents and had a major influence on welfare, Social Security, tax, transit and health-care policy...
This stance helped him keep the Governor's seat, despite the Bay State high concentration of liberal voters...
Despite the fact that her credentials range from an Academy Award to lauded improvisational comedy and autobiographies, Whoopi Goldberg could not draw enough spectators to fill the 1,100-seat Sanders Theatre to capacity on Monday afternoon...
...dorm crew, and one time I was cleaning a bathroom in Thayer, when I really had to take a dump! Well, I didn't think anyone was in the room, so I just took a seat and let fly. When I was finally through, I heard some people in the common room giggling. But they weren't laughing at me-they were having sex! Anyway, I was pretty embarrassed...