Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...date and time of the coming coup: Dec. 1 at 3 a.m. But Manila was used to rumors. And since the failure of the last big putsch, in August 1987, most of the talk had led nowhere, good only for a stir in the stock market or titillation among armchair plotters in the capital's gossipy coffee shops. At 10 p.m. on Nov. 30, the speculation was scotched as the government announced the arrest of three members of an elite military division who had attempted to sabotage a provincial communications station south of Manila. For most Filipinos, that seemed...
...chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw: "We've built a following of regular customers who don't even go into...
...privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience of mail-order shopping, and may have hit on a winning enterprise. Still, the thriving independents hope that buying a book from your armchair catalog won't be so satisfying as browsing through a volume in an armchair at your local mom-and-pop shop...
Through it all, the Bush Administration defended its actions without apology. "It's easy to be an armchair general," Secretary of State James Baker said with evident irritation to his Capitol Hill critics. "You don't ((risk American lives)) on the basis of someone else's plans and in response to rapidly changing circumstances...
...powerful that now encourages him to aspire to something beyond the National Space Council. For although he has no formal military or national-security credentials, what he privately covets is nothing less than Ryan's job as deputy director (intelligence) of the CIA. It may be only an armchair ambition, but at moments he seriously weighs whether he could handle the challenge. "I think I would be pretty good at it," he muses. "Maybe I could find out someday if I'm as smart...