Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made to me. It brings home to me how far more great are all those sentiments which unite us than are the"-Churchill smiled and coughed -"still quite important matters which are so often the occasion of debate in this house and out of doors." As Churchill took his seat again, laughter and more cheers echoed through the chamber...
...five-gaiters, beaten only once since he was a youngster of three. On Wing Commander's back was a wiry little man named Earl Teater, who had taught him everything he knew about "gaitin'." His owner, Mrs. Frances Dodge Van Lennep, watched from a seat...
Memorial Hall flourished for over half a century on a voluntary basis. Each student had a certain seat he occupied for all meals. Serving 1000 men a day under the vaulted arches of the nave, the association charged an average weekly rate of $3.95. Class wars still occurred and even bloody fights among the colored waiters, but the food was considerably better than Harvard Hall's. Menus offered roast rib of beef, braised pork tenderloin with robert sauce, "Creme d'Menthe Punch", and "Jelly Roll Pudding, Wine Sauce...
Great credit is due to Sam V. K. Willson who leaned back in his seat throughout, directing both the onstage and pit choruses. The stage being very small, he found it necessary to keep a majority of the dragoons and rapturous maidens seated in the pit. The idea was a great success. It not only left the stage uncluttered, but it provided the necessary volume for the chorus parts...
Boomtown. Scurry's county seat, the once sleepy little cotton and cattle town of Snyder, had never seen anything like it, either. In the crowded lobby of its dingy Manhattan Hotel, the air hummed with talk of royalties, acreage, porosity. Leases changed hands so fast that new maps of the county had to be issued twice a month (at $15 each). In nine months, Snyder's population had shot up from 3,000 to 15,000. To handle the overflow of schoolchildren, the town bought an empty schoolhouse 175 miles away and hauled it to Snyder...