Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says a Senator, is his "secret weapon." Dole admits to putting "a little stuff'' on his hair to keep out the gray, although he insists he does not color his eyebrows. And he sometimes slips off to his new hideaway near his office for a nap on a couch that Dole nabbed when Senator Howard Metzenbaum retired last year...
...through two questions about her academics before she interrupts "Do we have popsicles ?" She jumps out of the couch and returns with a neon green popsicle. "I would have gotten you one, but I know you'll just want to have mine." I smile. Tracey knows me well. I met her more than three years ago in the same building where we now both live and have been close friends ever since, especially after one semester as roommates...
...what I should have said," he explains. Weaver is clearly uncomfortable with his role as hero. His mail is still filled with gifts from supporters. Two weeks ago, he got two handmade quilts and pillowcases from a woman he had never met. His daughter Sara found them on the couch and said she could use them. "Then you have to write the thank-you note," he told...
Language out loud, and in derision--that's what Americans want to be doing. Those sitcom characters certainly aren't as smart as you are! You saw this whole thing coming from the very first! Yes, you sitting there on the couch with the glazed look and the short attention-span...
...while money is part of it, the deal can be fully understood only by laying the spreadsheets over a psychoanalyst's couch. For Iacocca, triumph followed by setbacks and then vindication has been a lifelong theme. "After Chrysler's bailout," says a close associate of Iacocca's, "the Secretary of the Treasury saw him arriving at a football game in his private jet. He called him and told him to get rid of the plane. Lee did, but then turned around and bought Gulfstream. Don't get mad, get even. That's pure Lee.'' His best-selling autobiography opens with...