Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next minute, without warning, the rain may be hurtling down, leaving no one in the streets except the cycle-drivers. Wearing only hats, shorts and wooden sandals, they seem not to mind the drenching as they push their armchair rickshas with their bicycles...
Caution. It seemed to Harry Truman that there were an awful lot of armchair experts in this country who knew just what ought to be done in Korea. In answer to a question, he said that of course he was still hopeful about Korea, and that it would turn out all right. Despite the headlines, over the weekend he expected a change for the better...
Relaxed in a wooden armchair at Chartwell, his 300-acre Kentish estate, Winston Churchill chewed his ubiquitous cigar and watched his tractors at work, while Anthony Eden, No. 2 man of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, carefully arranged his well-tailored frame on the grass beside his host...
Promising the viewer "double-feature enjoyment right in his own armchair," Ford Movie Night (Mon. 7 130 p.m., Manhattan station WOR-TV) this week went into direct competition with neighborhood movie theaters...
...picture opens with the camera poking among the abused remnants of a wedding reception-empty bottles, broken glasses, cigarette butts-and finally settling on the most pathetic: the father (Spencer Tracy) of the bride (Actress Taylor). Tracy, slumped in an armchair, massages a stockinged foot and begins to recount the events leading up to the disaster. Then, with his wry comments as counterpoint on the soundtrack, the movie takes up the account in flashback...