Word: divan
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...looks like an Alabama sheriff--all 300 pounds of him--as he reclines on the divan of the Leverett House Guest Suite, his wrinkled shirt unbuttoned, his huge belly rippling under his undershirt...
...wife must not only be pretty, but be able to frug in a sari while folding her hands in the traditional greeting of namaste. His home must be decorated in the best Western decor, but carry at least one careful Indian touch-perhaps a Mogul miniature or a divan with a brightly colored, hand-loomed bolster from the Punjab. Clubs are one British social heritage that upper-class Indians will not revolt against, perhaps because they were excluded in the days of the British raj. Today high-caste Indians are just as cutting to members of lesser castes...
...become established in Russia was a particularly vicious form of fascism." Through one of the youthful patients, Tarsis bitterly asks: "What is Communism?" His answer: "The apotheosis of drabness, the negation of personality, life on semolina gruel in a one-room flat with a bathroom-lavatory and a combination divan-bed-cupboard-desk-bookcase...
Would seat me on a lush divan...
...into real trouble until 1955, when he was with the British naval attache's office in Moscow. At a dinner party arranged by a Pole, Vassall recalled, "I was plied with very strong brandy," and soon he found himself engaging in "several compromising actions" on a divan with "two or three" other men. Having thoughtfully filmed the occasion, Soviet intelligence agents then smoothly blackmailed Vassall with the pictures...