Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pique. In Chicago, Elmer Miller, annoyed at not finding a seat on a suburban train, vengefully uncoupled the coaches from the engine, ended up in jail...
...work. He wanted a tomb as big as a house, with six polished stone pillars and a shiny granite roof as thick as a bomb shelter. He also wanted two marble statues: Sarah and John M. Davis as young folks, sitting discreetly at opposite ends of a love seat. The statues were made in Italy, modeled after pictures from the Davis photo album and they cost a mint of money; but John liked them and decided to get more...
...much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting...
Then he got ready to swing off on a four-week, coast-to-coast speaking tour. For this, the advance noise was already terrific. Hollywood Bowl officials started most of it by canceling a Wallace speech on the shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...
...Tokyo, Reynolds grandiloquently announced that he was taking over the controls. But when the plane came into LaGuardia Field, Pilot Odom, red-eyed and dog-tired, was still in the pilot's seat. He had flown round the world in 78 hours and 55 minutes. More remarkable, the plane was forced to fly 20,000 miles, some 5,000 miles more than Hughes, because Reynolds had not been able to get permission to fly over Russia...