Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother, Widmer and a 19-year-old youth named Theodore Slapik, awaiting trial for murder. The four descended from the fourth floor to the basement in an elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square at 60 m. p. h. Disregarding traffic signals they mowed down a woman pedestrian, breaking both her arms and legs. With the doors swinging wide-open and tires screeching around corners, the convicts outdistanced pursuing police...
Ambassador Johnson on his gunboat in the river had a front seat at the bombing of Nanking's railway station and its Hsiakwan slums along the Yangtze. There Chinese too young, too old, too poor, too sick or too ignorant to have left Nanking were slain in slews. Japanese bombs wrecked and ignited their miserable huts, blew them to bits, seared the living, cremated the dead. Instead of panic or disorder, the reaction of Nanking's wretched poor seemed to be either to cower bemused and trembling or to rush into the streets with yells, curses and fists...
...slight and dark. He also has thin hair and a holdover passion for ants. When he is not hunting ants in his spare hours, he is inclined to read anything from detective stories to incunabula. Fond also of the human animal, he loves parties and has been known to seat a distinguished scientist at dinner next to a circus freak. Director Mann's system of running his zoo is one of complete democracy. He insists that when he first arrived the head keeper set him to cleaning out cuspidors...
...League Council the job of loudly naming for the first time a pirate power was performed by Premier Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. Alphabetical rotation had made him president of the Council at this session, but Mr. Negrin handed his gavel to the Delegate of Ecuador, moved to another seat at the horseshoe table, drew himself up and cried: "The anonymous State whose warships are trying by constant aggressions to create a state of terrorism in the Mediterranean is Italy...
Undergraduates and other members of the University receive preference in seat locations, but definite reserved seats may nevertheless be bought in season books costing $8.80 or $5.50 for five varsity home games and the Harvard-Brown freshman game. These books are also available to outsiders...