Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formidable force of 20,000 North Vietnamese assault troops that had ringed 6,000 U.S. Marines and ARVN troops was gone. What once loomed as the largest, most decisive and most controversial battle of the Viet Nam war would now never be joined, and the forebodings of the armchair generals* who questioned the decision to defend Khe Sanh had proved unfounded...
Louis Washkansky began the second week of his second life by eating steak and eggs, his favorite dish. He took his first hesitant steps, a few yards from his bed to an armchair on a sunny balcony, badgered his wife to bring the family for a visit, and nicknamed the daily blood sampler "Old Dracula." Every other day he got a dose of cobalt-60 radiation that his doctors had or dered in hopes of controlling the expected-indeed, inevitable-attempt by his system to reject the "foreign" heart muscle in his chest. Even so, he was doing so famously...
Smith, relaxing in an armchair and filling the room with the wild cherry aroma of his pipe tobacco, did not feel powerless after his defeat. His unsuccessful campaign created a potentially devastating base of support--a coalition among white workers, Negroes, and intellectuals. "We have created something to work from, whether it's me or somebody else who runs next time. My job is to get the working class, the Negro and the intellectual together and screw the middle class...
What ever happened to those two old chairs-one a Victorian rocker, one a stuffed armchair-that belonged to Glassboro State College President Dr. Thomas Robinson, 62, and were made famous by being sat upon by Lyndon Johnson and Aleksei Kosygin during the Glassboro summit conference? Robinson stood silent on the momentous matter, but the office of New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes disclosed that they had been shipped to Washington, along with an equally historic end table, as a gift for L.B.J. What then? "It's all a great big fat puzzle to me," said a Smithsonian...
Already anthropologists have attacked Mumford as an armchair expert and dismissed his notions on the origins of speech as unknowable. He says language comes from dreams. "Before man achieved speech, his own unconscious alone must have been the only impelling voice he recognized, speaking to him in its own teasingly contradictory and confused images. Only a kind of dull doggedness can perhaps account for man's ability to get the better of these treacherous gifts and make something of them," and only by command of language was man able to embrace technics and articulate the significance of his achievements...