Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of two fire trucks rapidly extinguished the 6:10 p.m. blaze in the fourth floor suite of the dorm's B-entry. The flames in Canady B-44--which could be seen from the dorm's courtyard--came from a couch apparently ignited by fallen lamp or a faulty electrical circuit...
Fire fighters smashed the suite's living room window to heave the smoldering couch to the ground, and then doused it further and slashed it with an ax before leaving...
Explaining the decision to throw the couch out of the fourth-floor window, a fireman said. "You can't just put a little water on one of those things and leave them sitting...
Although the blaze blackened one wall and portion of the calling Wilson said only the couch and lamp suffered damages by fire and water. "The turntable is tuning about 80 rpm, but it might dry out," he added...
Throughout, Ephron refuses to allow a note of self-pity; even her title is derisive. Humiliations are always relieved by pratfalls: Mark has been spending time on the psychiatrist's couch-unfortunately, Thelma is on it with him. Rachel's mother breathes her last, and when a nurse covers her with a sheet the old lady sits up, sings "Ta da!", checks out of the hospital and files for divorce...