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...stadium as steamy as a Turkish bath, Navratilova parried top-spin forehands with crisp volleys. Martinez responded by hitting passing shots with precision; they found the lines unerringly. Martinez won the first set 6-4. Navratilova was leading 3-0 in the second set when Martinez called a time-out for a muscle injury. The delay seemed to break Navratilova's concentration, but she held on to win the set, 6-3. In the decisive third set, however, younger legs prevailed 6-3. But the warmest cheers after the match belonged to the runner-up, who magnanimously allowed Martinez...
Angela delighted in baths when she was out of the ventilator and could splash freely. "We'd play the sound track to Grease at bath time," Izzi recalls. "She was smiling and laughing, and we'd dry her off and hold her a little while, just to get some human contact." She adored watching videos, especially Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. "She wasn't really into Barney," observes Izzi. A lollipop was a special treat: "She would stick her tongue out, and we would rub it against her tongue...
Athletes know these truths, and so do the fans. The only people not clued in are the fabulators of the new breed of sports movies -- and the moviegoers who, for a couple of hours, take a warm bath in the false emotion...
...looks as if the bereaved mother may have been getting away with murder. Last week the 47-year-old Berkshire, New York, housewife sat in court charged with suffocating all five of her children. Authorities accuse her of smothering three with pillows, one with a bath towel and another by pressing its face against her shoulder (the specifics are based on a confession that Hoyt has now recanted). Says District Attorney William Fitzpatrick of Onondaga, New York, who initiated the investigation of Hoyt: "We have brought to justice a killer who preyed on her own children...
...world ((SCIENCE, March 13)), it seems obvious that early Homo erectus was actually present-day Homo sapiens all along. Maybe the former wasn't very smart or attractive by today's standards, but we wouldn't be very pretty either if we spent our whole life without a bath or a haircut, lived on the ground, never wore clothes and didn't have health care...