Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only way we can fly as much as we do." In a single...
MacWilliams swung straight in his seat, buckled his safety belt and started to let down. Darkness was closing in. "This is the time I hate. I'd much rather have full darkness." He shrugged. "Wonder where it'll be tomorrow...
...first time in its 64 seasons, the Met faced a double audience on opening night: the 3,459 seat holders, and an estimated 2,000,000 who watched every move on television.* After a summer of uncertainty and criticism (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the Metropolitan's management was anxious to please both...
...week's end, Harry Truman, his family and 200 others boarded his special train, sped noisily off to Philadelphia for the "Army-Navy game. This year he sat on Navy's side, bobbed up & down in his box seat as Navy officers got between him and the play, stayed until the last play, the last whistle...
...young Indian held a first-class ticket, but the guard ordered him to sit on the floor. When the Indian politely refused, the guard began to beat him furiously. The Indian showed no anger, made no attempt to defend himself, but he stuck to his seat...