Word: bathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...second atomic submarine, General Dynamics' Sea Wolf, is under construction by the company), the prospect of big, new orders for Convair's intercontinental ballistic missile, Atlas, and rumors of new mergers in the works. The most recent rumor, that General Dynamics would merge with destroyer-building Bath Iron Works, was denied by both companies. But Wall Streeters are sure that more, and bigger, mergers are on the way, since Hopkins is always looking for likely prospects...
...Hell with Philosophy." Yet he showed intestinal fortitude at the rarest moments. When The Seagull flopped miserably on its St. Petersburg opening, Chekhov went home, "gave myself a dose of castor oil, took a cold bath-and now I wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left...
Carnegie Hall was in a sweat bath of nostalgia: far-famed Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli (pronounced jeel-yee), 65, returned for his first U.S. appearances in 16 years, and presumably his last. This week he sang the third of three Manhattan farewell recitals. The instant his heavily paunched figure moved from the wings, the crowd turned on the applause full blast. The tenor bowed, leaned firmly on the piano, spread his feet and bent forward from the waist as if to bounce his voice off the stage...
...designed bed ten feet wide and ten feet long. If a man can enjoy his night's rest in a bed of that type, he ought to be willing to pay more taxes than those of us who have te sleep in ordinary beds. If he desires to bathe in a Roman bath like the Caesars of old, he should have the opportunity of paying a few more pennies in taxes for that privilege.'' In pained tones Berl Berry replied that Bartle had been a guest in his home and had abused his hospitality by taking notes...