Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just warned one NATO partner after another that they would make cemeteries of their countries in case of war. Their propaganda around the world was just as relentlessly condemnatory of the U.S. as ever, just as persistent in talking large and loosely about abolishing nuclear weapons. Only inside the Bath stone solemnity of London's Lancaster House were they talking with some precision on the subject. One possibility, though not probability, is that the Russians mean business. But there are other possibilities. They may be interested simply in testing out the subject, to see whether it has more advantages...
...echoes of Kafka. The manuscript, which Piatigorsky used to carry about with him in his cello case wherever he went, concerns one Dr. Blok, a painter who represents the eternal outcast and misfit. Blok's misadventures begin with his falling into a ditch, lead on to a Turkish bath frequented by a couple that have leprosy, and continue with a sort of Freudian secret society that tries to honor Dr. Blok by returning him to the womb (whether literally or symbolically, Author Piatigorsky does not say). But something goes wrong, and Dr. Blok winds up not in the planned...
...also attached special importance to plans for a study-bedroom for every member of the 350-student residence. According to present thinking, four such study-bedrooms would be grouped around a common living room and bath...
...muscled athletes from 49 colleges roiled University of North Carolina's Bowman Gray pool last week as they raced through the N.C.A.A. swimming championships. But in the competition for the team title, 47 of the squads had been sent to Chapel Hill for little more than a free bath. In essence, it was a dual meet between Yale and Michigan...
...back to the start of Sweden's independence. It began in greater discouragement than Gunnar or his competitors ever knew. In the bitter winter of 1520, Gustav Eriksson Vasa, then 24 and a fugitive from a Jutland prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler of Sweden. The political slaughter had been designed to stifle Swedish resistance to the Union of Kalmar, which bound together Sweden, Denmark and Norway under one crown. But when...