Word: couches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...
...theater as well as a successful producer as well as the wife of able Director Guthrie McClintic. Over the years Cornell has performed many near-miracles. She has made the yearning soul as good box office as the fiery body. She has made an invalid lady on a couch the essence of glamor. She has turned Shakespeare and Shaw into rousing hits. And when, next week, she brings her revival of Chekhov's The Three Sisters to Broadway, it will boast a dream production by anybody's reckoning - the most glittering cast the theater has seen, commercially...
...Britain over Sir William Beveridge's monumental report on social security. When the war began, Laborites were admitted to a Coalition Cabinet on condition that they refrain from raising "controversial" issues until after the war. Sir William, to put it mildly, has scattered many a cracker-crumb into the couch of Britain's political bedfellows. His ideas have won such widespread support that the Labor Party has decided to fight here and now for Parliamentary enactment of the new proposals...
...size comparable to the Salvation Army. (His parishioners disapproved. One objected that pocket picking had gone on at one of the street meetings; Dr. Carlile rejoiced that thieves were attending.) To the day of his death he eschewed "luxuries such as slippers and cushions," never sat on a couch if he could avoid it, always worked on a high, uncomfortable stool, as he had a great dread of feeling comfortable...
...knew she would be. All he could say was "Hello," and he thought of all he had to tell her in those two crowded days. He bought her flowers for the game, and she cheered for Yale when Harvard was ahead. After the game she was sitting on a couch with a glass of punch in her hand, and she was bright and laughing. Vag was quiet. He put one arm around her shoulder, and she turned to him and smiled. Then she laughed at something someone said on the other side of the room...