Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...
...Compagnie will provide a proper environment for the pet, customers must answer detailed questions. "Is your pet on a diet? Is he fussy about certain foods? Is he unable to endure a ringing telephone? Does he sleep at the foot of the bed, in the kitchen, in an armchair?" Data obtained, a kindly club employee picks up the animal and delivers it to a temporary home where in most cases a beast of similar breed but of the opposite sex awaits it. For an extra $2 or $3 per day, the pet receives a weekly "toilette" and food delicacies...
Alone in a semidarkened room, a young woman relaxed in an armchair before a blank screen, three electrodes fixed to her scalp and one grounded to an earlobe. Suddenly a pale blue light flickered on the screen and then steadied; a voice said quietly: "That's alpha...
...that will get you there in half the time," a French aerospace official said. Why should we want that even if it is a normal plane? That is a hard question to answer. I flew supersonically this week, and it seemed very much like getting to Everest in an armchair...
...Basil Liddell Hart's last work is magisterial. On active duty in World War I, he rose only to the rank of captain in the British army before being gassed in 1916; yet, as his country's foremost military historian, he became a matchless armchair general and indeed, as pioneer advocate of fast-moving armored columns, a teacher of generals. Liddell Hart worked on this history for a quarter-century; he died last year while correcting proofs. Quite literally, it is his epitaph, and an appropriate one. For along with a crisp style, skill and precision, it carries...