He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

At the Dumont, a guest had come in a collapsible wheel chair.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

As the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris, Alexander had many significant disciples.

It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

Ruddock responded to the Stasi revelations with " certainly had no influence on national CND, and as a pro-Soviet could never have succeeded to the chair.

At a 18 June Presidium meeting at which two Khrushchev supporters were absent, the plotters moved that Bulganin, who had joined the scheme, take the chair, and proposed other moves which would effectively demote Khrushchev and put themselves in control.

Those forced out included Hermann Weyl ( who had taken Hilbert's chair when he retired in 1930 ), Emmy Noether and Edmund Landau.

Apparently Husserl and Heidegger had moved apart during the 1920s, which became clearer after 1928 when Husserl retired and Heidegger succeeded to his University chair.

Fifteen of those ( including all seven signatories of the Proclamation ) had their sentences confirmed by Maxwell and were executed by firing squad between 3 and 12 May ( among them the seriously-wounded Connolly, shot while tied to a chair due to a shattered ankle ).

When he complained, Orwell hit him a crack across the legs with a shooting stick and Heppenstall then had to defend himself with a chair.

Because of the losses Guido Westerwelle had to resign as chair of the FDP in favor of Philipp Rösler, Federal Minister of Health, who was consequently appointed as vice chancellor.

In October he was too ill to take the President's chair and in November Fanny Burney recorded that " I had long languished to see that kindly zealous friend, but his ill health had intimidated me from making the attempt ": " He had a bandage over one eye, and the other shaded with a green half-bonnet.

In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in ' Purchas's Pilgrimage :' ' Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto: and thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.

The birthstool or chair often had armrests for the mother to grasp during the delivery.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

In 1236 or 1237, aged about 50, he made the surprising step of entering the Franciscan order, thus becoming the first Franciscan to hold a University chair.

At the beginning of 1236, he entered the Franciscan order ( he was at least 50 ) and was the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris.

He was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

On April 14, after its first session, the PRA announced that Khieu Samphan would chair the State Presidium for a 5-year term.

His first story sale was the climax of Modern Inventions, for a sequence where a robot barber chair gives Donald Duck a haircut on his butt.

* 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The Darmstadt University of Technology founded the first chair and the first faculty of electrical engineering worldwide in 1882.

In 1883 Darmstadt University of Technology and Cornell University introduced the world's first courses of study in electrical engineering, and in 1885 the University College London founded the first chair of electrical engineering in the United Kingdom.

* Carl Ritter ( 1779 – 1859 ), considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.

Austin was the first chair of law at the new University of London from 1829.

The first woman to be appointed to a professor's chair was the historian Birgitta Odén ( 1965 ).

In the 1970s, Tunnicliffe led the development of a standard called GenCode for the publishing industry and later was the first chair of the International Organization for Standardization committee that created SGML, the first standard descriptive markup language.

Helena Charles was elected the organisation's first chair.

The first academic chair devoted to politics in the United States was the chair of history and political science at Columbia University, first occupied by Prussian émigré Francis Lieber in 1857.

Others included a black horse mating over a white one, close-up pictures of tattoos reading " HIV Positive " on the bodies of men and women, a cemetery of many cross-like tombstones, a collage consisting of genitals of persons of various races, a priest and nun about to engage in a romantic kiss, pictures of inmates on death row, an electric chair, an advert showing a boy with hair shaped into the devil's horns, three different hearts with " black ", " white " and " yellow " written onto them ( from March 1996 ), and a picture of a bloodied t-shirt and pants ridden with bullet holes from a soldier killed in the Bosnian War ( this one appeared in February 1994 ).

In 2008, the county appeared to have disproportionate power in the legislature with the House Speaker, Shap Smith, from Morrisville, Floyd Nease, house majority leader, Senator Susan Bartlett, from Hyde Park, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Richard Westman, chair of the House Transportation Committee and the sole Republican.

Alexander Armstrong holds the record for both most appearances as guest presenter, as well as most guest appearances in total, having appeared 20 times in the central chair.

In 1870 he became chief pastor and superintendent at the University of Jena and soon afterwards professor ordinarius of theology, but in 1875 he was called to the chair of systematic theology at Berlin, having made his name by a series of articles on New Testament criticism and Johannine and Pauline theology, which appeared in Adolf Hilgenfeld's Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie, and by his Der Paulinismus, published in 1873.

Appointed to chair the Joint Economic Committee, Douglas led a series of hard-hitting investigations into fiscal mismanagement in government and appeared on the cover of Time.

Guerrero then appeared in the room and assaulted Benoit with a steel chair.

In September 1968 Corea replaced Herbie Hancock in the piano chair in Davis ' band and appeared on landmark albums such as Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, and Bitches Brew.

Then al-Mu ’ tasim appeared and sat on the chair and said, ‘ Bring Ahmad ibn Hanbal .’ So he was brought and when he stood in front of him al-Mu ’ tasim said to him, ‘ How were you in your cell during the night, 0 son of Hanbal ?’ He said, “ In goodness, and all praises are due to Allaah .” Al-Mu ‘ tasim said, ‘ 0 Ahmad, I saw a dream yesterday .’ He said,

One characteristic that is seen in many of his designs is a shield-shaped chair back, where an expansive shield appeared in place of a narrower splat design.

The programme turned towards being a chat show during Harty's year in the chair ; Melvyn Bragg, a friend of Harty's first appeared on the programme as a substitute presenter before illness led to Harty's death in 1988.

Œdipe chez Admèle, imitated partly from Euripides and partly from Sophocles, appeared in 1778, and secured him in the following year the chair in the Academy left vacant by the death of Voltaire.

After his article on the action appeared, Smith was visited by the local chair of SNCC who was seeking help with public relations.

He has also appeared on television as a political commentator, on Fox News, CNN's Reliable Sources, and The McLaughlin Group ( in the chair usually occupied by conservative Tony Blankley ), among other places.

Fort Paull has also appeared in the computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the Russian airport diner behind the counter's chair in a poster.

In 2006, Lawler appeared on Brainiac: Science Abuse, receiving an electric shock in an electric chair.

O ' Callaghan appeared as a Crown Prosecution witness in August 2006 during the trial of Yousef Samhan, 26 of Northolt, London, after an incident in which O ' Callaghan was bound to a chair by two young men whom he met in a gay bar in West London.

In January 1970, the chair of Ryerson's board of governors, William Kelly, threatened to sue for libel after a satiric article appeared under his byline.

Sydney Dobell's deerhounds appeared in several of his works, notably The empty chair of 1869.

On the formation of the first Mingus Dynasty band Pullen occupied the piano chair and appeared on their recording Chair In The Sky in 1979, but he soon left the band, feeling the music had diverged too far from Mingus ' intentions.

On August 16, 2008, he appeared with Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean at stops in northern Virginia as part of the Democratic National Committee's " Register for Change " bus tour to encourage local voter registration drives.

Edwards also briefly appeared on a 2008 episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T.