Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor of the Allied expedition at Gallipoli 25 years ago-turned into a blood bath by poor planning-Mr. Churchill this time took no chances on lack of preparation, manpower, support. Germany's initial invading forces outside the Oslo area could not be more than 15,000 men, scattered from Narvik to Stavanger, of which perhaps one-third were based on Trondheim. Observers in London estimated the Allied Expeditionary Force's first wave as at least three divisions (30-45,000), exclusive of naval and marine personnel. All these were reported landed in the Trondheim area...
...King and his Prime Minister did not know that Lord Tweedsmuir was going to slip in his bath and die of brain concussion (TIME, Feb. 19), but his term was about to expire and they did well to get everything forehandedly settled. Last week. Buckingham Palace officially announced that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint as Governor General of Canada Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, Knight of the Garter, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael & St. George...
...General Lee along the way), reaches his office at precisely 5:40. At 1:15 he drives home (again saluting General Lee), spends his afternoon working on books, articles, lectures, talks for an hour with his wife, climbs to the third-floor suite where he has a bedroom, study, bath, and a little chapel (with stained-glass window) for meditation. At exactly 8:45 he goes...
Alhambra, a Los Angeles suburb, is an ordinary U. S. town. Girl students in its high school, like those in many another, have to attend gymnasium classes and afterwards take a shower bath. Two months ago Alhambra's high-school girls moved into a new building, where they had to undress and shower in a big common shower room. This seemed all right to most of them. But not to tall, moon-faced Joan Aveline Lawrence, 16. After one horrid ordeal, Joan refused to shower again in public even if they flunked...
When Dr. Dichter asks people about bathing habits, they almost always reply huffily that they take a bath every day. But, by asking when they like to bathe best, he sometimes traps victims into saying "Saturday night." Among U. S,, common folk Saturday night is not only bath time but play time. Children, asked when they like best to bathe, are likely to answer "Christmas," or "On my birthday." Obvious application to soap-selling: depict bathing not as a virtuous task but as a frolic...