Word: couches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More subtle is the lounge. She always comes up with a broken ski (see picture) or a slight sniffle and must retire to the ledge post haste. For her it's always either too icy or too cold to go skiing, and this "little ol' couch is so-o-o comfy...
...Druten, carried by the nearby Johnston office, had to change his tactics. Instead of inexorably propelling Parker and Reagan into bed, he has to keep them out of it. When Reagan, a buck-sergeant on week-end furlough, retires on Miss Parker's living room couch, the camera carefully records the tightly closed bedroom door that separates the lovers. In the play, the curtain fell as the two embraced. But the idea is the same and most people will probably catch...
...Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, Imam of Yemen, in the southwestern corner of Arabia, are entitled to be called Saif el Islam (Sword of Islam). The Swords have frequently crossed each other, vying for succession to the black mattress with red cushions which is the Imam's couch of state in his capital, Sana. Yahya, who believes in one-man government, named his own successor-eldest son Ahmed, governor of Taiz province. But according to Yemenite tradition, a council of eleven elders should choose the new Imam. So the other sons have not lost hope...
...assets: he commands the Sana garrison and is close to the Imamate's treasury, in the cellar under Yahya's palace. Brother Abdullah, Yahya's roving ambassador to various foreign posts (now in London), is too remote from Yemen to be a strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave...
...days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...