Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Colonel William E. Bertram of Chicago was heating water on a gasoline burner-for a bath in the half-shell of a discarded belly tank. Bertram gave his story of last week's first big battle between the enemy's Russian-made MIG-15s and U.S. F-84 Thunderjets: "We were hitting a bridge halfway between Sinuiju and Sinanju. I saw a MIG on the tail of one of our guys and went to help and then four more MIGs went through me. I went up into the sun and skidded around and caught some more tracers...
...drinking water runs through filthy gutters.) In Mamazan, Hobbing saw peasants doing voluntary work on a new community project, a bathhouse. He asked them if they minded the extra labor. They pushed back their round caps and looked puzzled. Said one: Why should we? It's for a bath...
Last week one of Dickie's friends asked him to play Indian. He agreed. But at the last minute he decided to try a different game. He put on a yellow sweat shirt, tied a bath towel around his neck like a cape. The boys headed for a 25-foot embankment. Dickie walked back from the brink, turned, ran as hard as he could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor...
After a sliver of glass hit her right eye during the goblet-smashing scene in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens carried on to the end of the act. During intermission she had the splinter removed. Then, relying on a boric-acid eye bath, she turned down an unglamorous bandage, sang through the last...
Mike Todd's Peep Show is another of this ilk. The finale is indicative of the whole show 50 girls 50 in a bubble bath...