Word: bath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker who yearns to fancy himself in the great tepidarium (warm room) of an ancient Roman bath need go no further than Pennsylvania Station: its main waiting room is almost a duplicate of the hall of the old Baths of Caracalla. The station also has a classical colonnaded facade, broad and elegant staircases, a huge, skylighted concourse with vaulting arches of lacy steel and glass. It smells of past grandeur and wars and old steam and tears and waitin'-for-the-train-to-come-in. All this is going to be torn down because it no longer makes economic...
...royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman a well-earned honor-the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath...
Cissy Goforth is 60 years old but she dresses like a teenager in tight, white Capri pants and high heels. She lives in a stupendous villa on the Italian coast. Like the Wife of Bath, she has had a spray of husbands and she boasts that she keeps her splendid body in shape through "plenty of exercise...
...them 2,500 years ago, the inhabitants of the sun-scorched Cyclades Islands off Greece have led a parched existence. This summer some of the Cyclades are looking positively green. On the island of Hydra a resort hotel that closed two years ago because tourists got tired of going bath-less has now reopened with baths aplenty. Water, which once cost $1.40 a ton in the Cyclades, is now selling...
...crack units needed nearly five months to reach combat status. He discovered that the Guard had 95 antiaircraft companies armed with old-line 90-mm. guns that were useless against supersonic jet aircraft. And he found that the Guard was loaded down with such excess baggage as laundry companies, bath units, public relations men and special service companies to entertain the troops...