Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frazzled urban professionals love them. Once a week Joe Meissner, 39, who runs an executive placement service in San Francisco, reroutes his calls, takes off his vest, loosens his tie and turns himself over to Corporate Stressbusters. They bring the equipment: a stool, a 3-in.-thick black cushion and a pair of hands. "Stress goes right into my shoulders," sighs Meissner. "They knead it all out of me." Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles boast similar services. In New York City, Attorney Peter Kupersmith calls the quarter-hour sessions devoted to his neck and shoulders "miraculous and a crucial part...
Washington's uproarious Richard Scammon, a political expert who loves the thunder of combat, wonders somewhat sadly if we have "become too sophisticated for ideology." The level of education, awareness and understanding increases geometrically with every election. Government programs cushion and encourage almost everyone in the nation in some way. Only a small fraction of the population is now outside the system, a phenomenon that tends to discourage boat rockers. The farmers in trouble are not penniless tenants on somebody else's land; they are farm owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter...
...tolerant commissioners had her removed. When that British rascal Rear Admiral George Cockburn broke into the White House with 150 of his sailors on Aug. 24, 1814, they ate the dinner prepared for James and Dolley Madison, who had fled. Then, before firing the place, Cockburn claimed a chair cushion, declaring that it would help him remember Mrs. Madison's seat. The remark was considered so risque it was not printed for years...
Witt, given a big cushion, breezed through theBoston batting order...
...booters watched the game slip out of their hands in the first 20 minutes in Oneonta, N.Y., as Hartwick scored at 5:01 of the first half on a Mark Melttrick goal. Paul Cushion tallied for the hosts at 17:05--and just two minutes later, Todd Karpy scored off Harvard goalie Chad Reilly to push the lead...