Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armchair agronomist, Ray Anderson's talents range far afield from reporting. His farm page is a bursting bin of unmetered verse, sound information on crops and controls, self-snapped pictures, Falstaffian musings on the "gorgeous gorging" of apple-mulberry pie at Center Junction. Before gasoline rationing slowed his pace he averaged 38,000 miles a year, perhaps half of them over unpaved pikes and stubbly fields...
...India's capital last week, "Vinegar Joe'' Stilwell sat rigidly in his rattan-cane armchair, long fingers playing with his favorite cigaret holder, eyes almost shut. Curtly he replied to his critics: the Ledo Road fulfills two U.S. objectives: 1) to get at least some supplies to blockaded China; 2) to set up a situation in which Japs are killed...
...picture of a stomach sitting at ease in an armchair with beer and pretzels beside it while esophagus and duodenum stream off nonchalantly in all directions...
John Galsworthy, oaken novelist, left an appropriate mansion in London when he died in 1933. Its furnishings have just been sold. The Nobel Prizewinner's favorite armchair brought only ?21; his desk...
...part of apologist for the campaign which he was soon to leave for a bigger one. Flanked by the Fifth Army's Mark Clark and other high officers, the well-spoken man who was still Mediterranean commander in chief talked to correspondents. He took a swing at "armchair critics," then conceded that all had not gone according to plan. His argument covered familiar ground...