Word: seat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections of an antique clarinet. Peering through his familiar black-rimmed glasses, he hops up onto the bandstand and takes his usual seat next to the piano. The trumpet player snaps his fingers twice, and suddenly the whole room is reverberating to the strains of a 1905 pop tune, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree...
...government lifted a 20-month-old order that barred Mrs. Sisulu from political activities. Also, De Klerk was the host for three hours of what he described as "talks about talks" with three M.D.M.-affiliated antiapartheid campaigners, all of them rare visitors to Pretoria's Union Buildings, the seat of white rule: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; and the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches...
Baseball must be commended for the way it has handled the situation. It has taken a back seat instead of worrying about losing revenues and Budweiser commercials...
Harmon, who won an Undergraduate Council seat on a platform opposing randomization, also said he hopes to "add legitimacy to the cause" by convincing the council to back his fight...
...heads Greece's Socialist Party. Following last week's decision on Papandreou, the coalition government of the conservative New Democracy Party and the Alliance of the Left decided to dissolve Parliament this week and hold new elections on Nov. 5. Papandreou has vowed to seek re- election to his seat...