Word: couching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taut Assistant Secretary, John McNaughton, now dead, sweeping confident eyes across the map of the world and talking fast, very fast. Speaking ever so precisely of the potential of yet another of Saigon's revolving governments, the coatless Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy stretched out on his leather couch. Brooding over all loomed the peaked profile of Lyndon Johnson, secretive, holding his options open until the final moment, seemingly unwilling even to confide in himself what he would do next...
...mother can be in there too -and she goes out of her mind with joy. But is he too jolly? Yes. Driven by something that is bigger than him and bigger than anybody. There is the smell of position and power already in Kennedy's office. The couch is thick and lush, not the black Government issue. The pictures on the walls are large and professional-of family and friends, telling in their way the Senator's past and his purpose. The other candidates seem like renters in their quarters. Kennedy seems...
MOVABLE COLUMN. New Haven Architect Luckey has designed an 8-ft.-long, 6-ft.-diameter column that can be used in various ways. In a horizontal position, it serves as a bed or a couch; when it is lifted to a vertical position, the interior can be used as a dressing space, storage area or simply as a place to read in peace...
...feat, it's hard to see Enscoe in the role of Ryan O'Neal. "I never really sit down and think about talking about myself," he said sitting back on a couch in his room, and that's a pretty unusual thing to hear around here...
...sinks onto the cluttered couch of gold brocade, dropping a leather jacket on the floor beside him. He squints. His cold, blue eyes do battle with the yellow afternoon sun that streams through the foggy windows before him. He stretches, his tall, slim body, stretching in the warmth like a lithe, tense cat. His beard is cropped close, ash-blond, almost grey in the translucent light, and blends, quite unostentatiously, with his shaggily trimmed hair. His eyebrows-enormous tensile spans that arch across his brow-seem to be all that is holding him together, so much so that you forget...