Word: couched
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Willkie took then, as he still does, his thirst for argumentative ideas into his reading. He has always had great difficulty in finishing a book. A footnote in the first chapter sends him to another book, a second reference to a third, until, lounging on a couch, shoes off, he wallows happily in cascades of books. He has never read books in the usual sense-he argues his way through them...
Taber's yell detonated through the loudspeaker, something seemed to give way in Mr. Schuetz's skull. Shaking like a third-day drunk, he staggered to the cloakroom, slumped to a couch. "I thought I would go goofy," said Mr. Schuetz simply...
...pole vault Senior Steve Madey cleared a higher distance than he ever has before. Marsh Maclasae also showed up better than he has previously, and teamed with Chet d"Autrement and Bill couch, Mikkola is rather hopeful for his vaulters in the Saturday fray...
...would have long since destroyed anyone of lesser steel, polished by the saving grace of a swift mind that has dwelt long on the ironies of politics-Burt Wheeler has lived a half-dozen lives, every one at top speed, except for brief intervals of catnapping on his office couch. "Nearly everything, except perhaps dinner, seems less important after a nap," says Mr. Wheeler...
...camera reveals in the still life of the room-Rebecca's ash tray still heaped with cigarette stubs, the over-plump cushions of her flowered couch-the real life of the woman which her husband is revealing for the first time to another person. As Olivier pauses, the cobwebbed telephone shrills like a police siren in the silence; scene and story reach their star-shell denouement...