Word: couched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuckahoe, Westchester County suburb of New York City, there were strange goings-on at the high school. On Monday morning, pupils reporting for home-economics class, in a model apartment on the first floor, discovered two open suitcases on the studio couch, a pair of trousers in a closet, a rich smell of coffee...
...policy failed. Naziism could not be synthesized. One night in October 1938, a plane whisked Dr. Benes into exile. He was lecturing on democracy at the University of Chicago when word came, five months later, of Hitler's march into Czechoslovakia. For a day he lay on a couch in a darkened room, in a stillness as of death. Next morning, resolute and reinvigorated, he plunged into the task of keeping the Republic alive in exile...
Helpmeet. In Chicago, when George Leenheer lay down on his couch, his wife considerately removed his shoes "to make him comfortable" before she shot...
...late Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (rhymes with hooch) was best known to Americans not as the author of nearly 60 volumes of novels, essays and poetry, but as editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse, one of the world's best-selling anthologies (500,000 copies since 1900). To Victorian contemporaries Sir Arthur was the pseudonymous "Q," whose tales of adventure (The Splendid Spur, I Saw Three Ships) made him one of Britain's most popular storytellers at the turn of the century. To Cambridge students, from 1912 until his death last year, he was the sharp...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...