Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temptation to "talk up" the dollar or the stock market or bash the Fed for interest-rate moves. And Clinton has, in typical style, been an aggressive autodidact. Aides recall the time last fall when, nursing an aching back, Clinton spent an afternoon stretched out on a White House couch with one eye on the TV and the other on George Soros' complex new book on the risks of capitalism. He finished it in a day and quickly passed the underlined, dog-eared copy to his aides as required reading...
...work lies in the fact that these children, grandmothers, brothers and fathers are all thousands of miles from their homeland. Three siblings sit in front of stylized American wallpaper, but above their heads are paintings and family portraits in Vietnam. One wife sits with her husband on their couch digging her bare toes into the carpet. The immediacy of Cho's subjects is aided by quotations explaining the changes of emigration...
...Friday night, early December 1998, and you're backstage at Saturday Night Live. You're hanging out in the dressing room with Lauryn Hill, who is sitting on the couch, flipping through a script. The 23-year-old rapper-singer-actress is the musical guest on this week's show. It's her coming-out party, the first live TV performance she's done since releasing her critically acclaimed and best-selling album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She might also do a little acting on the show--SNL staff members have asked her to appear in a skit...
...lifestyle hasn't changed too much," Birk said. "I don't go out as much, that's for sure. I get to the office at 6 a.m., get home at 5 p.m., and it's pretty much football all day. You really just want to lie on the couch when you get home. It's not like college anymore where you have other things to be concerned about...
Other owners may not be so realistic. Says Bonnie Beaver, a behavior specialist for 25 years and chief of medicine at Texas A & M's veterinary school: "I'll have people say, 'See, he soiled the couch to spite me! He knows he's guilty!' Or they'll try to reason intellectually with the dog. Often it's a medical problem. [Or] the dog may have peed in the house for as simple a reason as it was too cold to go when he went...