Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Miss Brucher was in the race for a seat as the Bonn Parliament. Since 1947 when the Free Democrats invited her to run successfully for the Munich City Council she has told teachers, students and ward committees that there should be more young blood in Germany's infault government...
From a distance it looked like a dull campaign between two dignified, successful and high-minded men. But in New York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...
...psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...
...Mind Your Ps and Qs." In the fall of 1865 Jesse drifted back to Clay County, Mo. with other guerrillas "who refused to believe that the war was over." There was scarcely a Saturday night that Jesse's gang didn't shoot up Liberty, the county-seat. There Jesse was arrested for the first & only time in his life-by a Republican sheriff who let him and his gang go with a mild warning "to mind their Ps and Qs." The James gang sneered. In February 1866 they thundered back into Liberty and held up a bank...
Both groups started out with Harvard having a slight edge, and both finished up strongly, Harvard still out in front. It may have been my seat, it may have been that the acoustics were strange for the Princetons, but it seemed to me that the visitors lacked precision and tone in the beginning...