Word: couching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...
...arrived in his loincloth, a narrow white scarf around his neck. Twice he lost his glasses. Each time his admirers tried to put them back on for him. Momentarily forgetting nonviolence, he swung his fists to ward off the overzealous. Inside the Pandal, Gandhi spoke, cross-legged from a couch, into a microphone. A friend explained: "He has some difficulty because he has lost his teeth...
...building, except for the contented hum of the refrigerator that posed in the blackness, two feet in front of him. His hand brushed the string. He grasped it and pulled; then painlessly extracted another beer from the refrigerator, pulled the string again and returned to the large, black leather couch in the sanctum. The night was hot and quiet and the beer cold and satisfying. A blue magnesium light on Plympton Street flickered white, then changed back to blue with a litle click. Someone's phonograph was playing from a room in Adams House. Suddenly, completely without warning, the fragile...
...bothered. He paced up and down the room, stopping every so often to kick an old copy of the "Lampoon" under the studio couch. This war was getting under his skin. Once this compulsory athletic program begins I won't even be able to stand up, much less walk around, he thought as he collapsed into an armchair. Stretching out a languid hand for a quick-energy chocolate bar, he reflected on the meagreness of the evening meal. A man needed more than that under his belt after four weary hours in Harry's Club. He'd really learned...
...anything drastic happens to Mario, his twin brother automatically feels it. Mario gets pinked by a saber thrust in a Parisian duel and Lucien, leagues away in a Corsican forest, also bears the pain. Mario falls in love with the heroine (Ruth Warrick), and Lucien writhes on his Corsican couch...