Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter Lucy had become George's wife in 1903. One lazy summer afternoon George was fishing on the Flint River near Vienna when he got word of the death of rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson, bitter isolationist and onetime Populist Party candidate for President. George ran for the vacant place, and won. On Nov. 22, 1922 Walter George took his seat in the U.S. Senate, has been there ever since...
...retire but aware that he must, refused to steal any more thunder from Anthony Eden by appearing in the House of Commons on the day Eden took over. But the back-bench seat (actually on the front bench), which he firmly intends to hang onto, was standing ready and vacant for him. "The House has today lost one of the greatest frontbenchers in all its history," said Tory Walter Elliot, "but the backbenchers have gained the greatest backbencher of all times...
President Pusey announced Horton's appointment to the post, vacant for the past two years, in a special release last night. George H. Williams, associate professor of History, has served as Acting Dean of the school during an unusually long vacancy, since the retirement in January, 1953 of the late Dean Willard L. Sperry. Horton's name had first been mentioned for the position as early as the fall...
...Flame of the Inn is dim tonight- Too many vacant chairs- The sun has lost too much of its light- Too many songs have taken flight- Too many ghosts on the stairs- Charon-here's to you-as man against man- I wish I could pick...
...France does not approve the accords, said Pinay, it will be dangerously isolated. To prove his point he produced a letter from Sir Winston Churchill, saying that if France left her place vacant at international councils, "sooner or later another nation [meaning West Germany] would take her chair." Pinay's case was further bolstered by a message from President Eisenhower, giving assurance that U.S. forces would stay in Europe "while a threat to that area exists." This important U.S. guarantee had been given during the EDC struggle, but it had lapsed with the death...