Word: bathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying to live down the blood bath, the new government sent soldiers all over Baghdad with green paint to erase extremist anti-Western slogans. Photographs of violence (including pictures of the naked corpse of the Crown Prince hanging footless from a post, and the dismembered body of Premier Nuri being dragged through the streets) disappeared from shops. Strict orders were issued to the public against molesting foreigners. The violently anti-Western newspaper Al-Bilad was told to stop its inflammatory editorials; the radio kept issuing reassuring reports on the oil industry, whose refineries went on producing and whose foreign technicians...
...Child engagements. In one French Guinea tribe, if expectant parents are betting on a girl, the engagement takes place before the bride-to-be is even born. The baby girl gets her engagement ring in her first bath. Disturbed enough by prepuberty engagements, the delegates were shocked at the Guinea custom. "Alas, we cannot change," said one, "until the African man realizes that a woman is not just the daughter of her father, to be disposed of as he likes, or the property of her husband, to be treated as he pleases...
...moment from a clarion-voiced observer: "Afterwards Sir Winston Churchill said I had made a very remarkable performance-but he would only speak to me in the lobby, not in the House. He said: 'When you entered, I felt you had come upon me in my bath and I'd nothing to protect myself with but the sponge...
...Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good hot bath. This is the adjustment of religion to the American way of life, to the refrigerator and the Cadillac way of life. This kind of faith never says: 'I tremble for my country because God is just...
...Oscar Niemeyer's swooping, triangular Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima. With his family and chef he moved into Niemeyer's long, low Palace of the Dawn, acted as host at the first dinner dance, spent his first night in the sumptuous presidential bedroom, took the first bath in the sunken marble presidential bathtub...