Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bother you anymore," he explains. "Freshman year, I was arguing with my roommate about leaving shampoo in the shower, and now people are clogging the toilet and leaving stuff all over the floor. Or you come home at 2 a.m. and your roommate's sitting on the couch with some girl and you say, 'Uh, I'm going...
Interactive media will spur many of what we now call "couch potatoes" into becoming active members of society, as consumers and as citizens. I'd be willing to bet that the number of people interested in the outcome of today's elections far outweighs the number of people who will actually vote...
Aristide wanted to spend his first night home at his private residence just outside town, but he was told by his security people that his safety there could not yet be guaranteed. So he chose to remain in the palace and slept in his office on a pull-out couch sent over by a helpful friend. There was no working shower; the President had to bathe a la paysanne -- peasant style -- using buckets of water and a sink...
...serious note, the biggest shame of this whole strike, is that Andre Dawson ended his illustriuos career on the couch rather than on the diamond...
...past few decades, the majority of researchers have worked to show that psychiatric disorders are triggered by chemical imbalances in the brain that can be rectified with medication. Breggin, by contrast, clings to an old-fashioned view: the emotional problems that land a person on a psychiatrist's couch result from traumas caused by outside forces, like sexual abuse during childhood. Drugs can't erase these traumas, he asserts, and aren't even appropriate for such severe conditions as schizophrenia and manic depression. "These are not illnesses," he says. "They are ways people become when they are hurt or frightened...