Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Winston Churchill came back to a whirling storm of young Tory complaints. At a meeting of the backbenchers, Churchill slumped in a red leather armchair, listened sourly for 90 minutes to their pent-up criticisms. In schoolmasterly fashion Churchill reminded the younger men that they would better appreciate Parliament tactics when they had a few more years behind them...
...steady stream of cables, wires, newspaper clippings, press releases and trade journals pours across his desk, and he reads them all for leads for TIME stories. But Wendt is no armchair journalist: he spends some six months of every year piling up as many as 92,000 miles visiting the government, industrial and college laboratories he likes to call "the birthplace of the future...
Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, prewar armchair strategist (The Defence of Britain) who forecast a "very tame" war and believed in the Maginot Line, came out in the London Daily Mail with a tip on how to tell whether war or peace is in sight: if women's fashions favor wide hips and slender waists (as in the Nineties), everything is O.K. "Curves signify contentment," he said; "the vertical line expresses discontent." He found Paris' trend to high hats and short skirts "obviously danger signs...
...week in which the entire U.S. was showering praise on General Eisenhower for the job he did in unifying the diverse Allied commands in Europe, many an armchair strategist in the U.S. cried out for an Eisenhower of the Pacific. They had some reason: the Pacific command, the lines of which were defined none too sharply by Franklin Roosevelt shortly be fore he died, is complicated...
...Realty Co. of Casper, Wyo., Ben L. Sherck, prop., offered a bargain in western real estate last week-the Big Horn country's fabled Lost Cabin Ranch. Many a prospective customer was disconcerted at its size-Lost Cabin was designed expressly for an old-fashioned range king. But armchair adventurers were fascinated by its sagebrush-scented legend...