Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forbert faces sullenly forward on the naugahyde couch, a kid called once more into the principal's office and sick...
McKibben fails to realize that all groups advocating hatred and violence are to be condemned, not only those which fail to couch their arguments in the language of altruism and sacrifice. Mark A. Sauter...
...time, had volunteered to be injected with a powerful new hypnotic-hallucinogenic drug that is euphemistically known as Lot Six and is called dilysergic triune acid, obviously a by-blow of LSD. Vicky, the mother, develops telekinetic ability, manipulating objects without physical contact. Andy McGee comes off the couch with the power to dominate and direct -"push," in King's word-other people's minds. The drug has changed both parents' chromosomal structure; it is this mutation, not convincingly explained by King, that has produced Charlie's pyrokinesis...
Jordan wore a pinstripe suit, and whenever he stepped out of the trailer he fastidiously covered his bottle of beer with a brown paper bag. Strauss, in white shirtsleeves, leaned forward on the couch, a phone to his ear. A call had just come from the Maine delegates threatening to abandon Carter unless they received a statement from their favorite son, Ed Muskie, the Secretary of State, that he definitely would not run. Jordan quickly picked up another phone, dialed the President at Camp David and asked him to get Muskie to make the call...
...instant Kennedy was through, the noisy demonstration of support from the floor filled the trailer. A call came in from Carl Wagner, a top Kennedy aide, and Tim Kraft cupped his hand to his ear and listened to an offer from the Senator. From the couch, Strauss watched intently. As Kraft repeated the terms out loud-Kennedy would abandon the agreed-upon roll call votes if Carter would concede three economic planks calling for wage and price controls, a jobs program and giving priority to fighting unemployment-Strauss got to his feet and let loose. "The hell with that...