Word: couches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsitsin thinks he almost has it-his No. 34,085 meets most specifications. This strain, a cross between wheat and couch grass grows summer or winter, is drought-and rustproof, pollenizes itself, thrives even in salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have...
Lindner began in orthodox analytic fashion by having the boy lie on a couch and encouraging him to talk freely. (Lindner got his transcript via a microphone concealed in the couch. Told about this at the end of the analysis, Harold himself urged the analyst to publish the record.) Without much hesitation, Harold gave the details of a hair-raising career of gun-toting, stealing, vandalism, fornication. Like all psychopaths, Harold was "a rebel without a cause, a revolutionary without a program," a grownup infant with no self-restraint and a craving for instant satisfactions...
...Buckingham Palace in the telephone book and call Whitehall 4832. When I got His Majesty's press agent representative on the wire, instead of saying to him 'Hey Butch, how about a squint at the big shot?' I had to call him Sir Eric and couch my request in Sunday language.* It worked...
Died. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby...
That was for moments short to couch thy form...