Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reitan and Dergen leaped off the roof and fell into the river, by now a boiling mass of logs, mud, pieces of a collapsed train trestle and what Reitan described as "hot bath water." Said he: "I thought we had had it. Venus was stuck between logs, and disappeared several times. I kept climbing over logs to reach her. We were lucky that the logs opened up and I could pull her out." The two were carried about a mile down the river before a family of campers spotted them and heard Reitan calling for help. It took the rescuers...
...evening, defendants out on bail resume normal routines as best they can. Anita Musick, 38, drives back to the East Bay to the El Portal Motel. "This is the way racketeers live," she says of the shab by two rooms with kitchen and bath unit. Clothes for court hang on the shower rod. Her biggest mistake seems to have been falling in love with a succession of heavy-duty Hell's Angels and being the kind of woman who will help anyone, any time, no matter what he has done. "The night of the arrest," she says...
...their tea and coffee seriously. Though she often describes routine, her novels can be very refreshing: she is someone who writes about offices without ridicule, irony or condescension. She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath...
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Reporters who have tested the tanks note an initial feeling of claustrophobia when the door closes behind them and they are isolated in an 8-ft.-long, 4-ft.-high space and 10 in. of water. "It smells," says one, "like day-old bath water." The 28% saline solution makes skin nicks and scratches smart and can sting the eyes. But, like most addicted tankheads, floaters experience a form of euphoria, though not necessarily as intense as the state reported by a 76-year-old salt in Minneapolis: "Now I can see the inside me/ While I float the outside...