Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adventurers who platted the town on the banks of the Ohio River were certain it would be a seat of great farms, a port for the burgeoning West, and a center of riches and influence. They gave its streets such proud names as Washington and Maryland and they called the village America. In the 1820s it grew fast. Then shifting sands moved the river channel and its commerce away, and a terrible epidemic swept the town. By 1835 its brave dream was dying; in the century after that, America, Ill. almost vanished...
...results of that tour the State Department was expected to base some of its most critical decisions of 1950. If Diplomat Jessup, who had sometimes questioned State's wait-until-the-dust-settles policy, could provide the basis for a revitalized U.S. policy in Asia, his seat in the little paneled office in the State Department would be even harder to fill...
...Jerusalem the Eternal," cried Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. "Thus it was 3,000 years ago and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time." Then, bluntly defying the U.N. demand for Jerusalem's internationalization (TIME, Dec. 19), pugnacious Ben-Gurion moved the seat of his government from Tel Aviv to the Holy City...
...students were settling down in a new dormitory designed in the modern style of the school's eight other buildings. Between classes, blue-sweatered members of the Borregos (Rams), Tecnológico's U.S.-style football team, watched builders at work on a stadium that will eventually seat 45,000. In the 20,000-volume library and well-equipped laboratories, other students were busy on courses from elementary bookkeeping to advanced engineering...
...That Enough?" Two days before Louella broke the news (and then burst into tears because stern journalistic duty had driven her to it), the Italian newspaper Il Tempo had noted that Ingrid was "knitting little things" and "rose with a certain difficulty from her seat." And it was no secret in Rome that a tall Sicilian physician had examined Ingrid and then blabbed...