Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interim White House while Calvin Coolidge waited for Warren Harding's widow to vacate the executive mansion two blocks away. Lincoln lived at the Willard with his family before the 1861 inauguration. U. S. Grant would shamble over in the evening to smoke cigars and glower from the armchair set aside for him in a dimly lit corner of the lobby...
...sits in an armchair made from antlers, munching a fine cheese taken from his bright yellow refrigerator, Schneider can never brood for long. After all, there are more concerts to be presented, neglected sonatas to be dug out, protégés to be promoted. "Plans I have for the future by the thousands," he says, brightening. "How many will work, I don't know. But without them...
INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN RADICALISM, by Staughton Lynd. A historical handbook for the armchair revolutionary by one of the leading scholars of the New Left...
...complaints too. "I don't like the way he allows his life to be governed by soothsayers," she said, harking back to the time he grew so superstitious over the malevolence of the color purple that he refused to enter his house until she had removed a purple armchair. Sellers was sympathetic. "She's so much younger, and I've already done all the things she likes...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan took over as director of the Center in 1966, trend-predictors expected him to chart a more policy-oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...