Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Jester's public batting average was 1,000. In his first try for political office he won a seat on the railroad commission in 1942, was re-elected to a full six-year term two years later. He had his own explanation for his victory, which fitted in with 1946's conservative voting trend. Said he: it showed Texans wanted no part of "newfangled theories of government...
...sleek, twin-boomed Black Widow night fighter, pilot J. W. McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert...
...success of the A.A.F.'s new pilot ejection seat would be welcome news to airmen who had long worried about bailing out of high-speed aircraft. But A.A.F. designers could not claim complete credit. The idea had been copied from a similar Luftwaffe gadget...
WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
...decided-definitely, he said-to give up public life and work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at $30,000 a year, with prospects of becoming president of the company at $75,000. But people wondered: could Ray Baldwin really bring himself to give it all up-a prospective seat in the U.S. Senate and further opportunities to serve his country in a great period of history...