Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marble avenue where ancient shoppers thronged, a Roman bath with colorful mosaics, and the first glimpse of the fabled golden riches of the capital of Croesus are among important discoveries made by a Harvard-Cornell team this summer in its fourth expedition at Sardis, Turkey...
...Bath of Paint. On streets like the Bernauerstrasse, where the frontier literally ends at the sidewalk, windows of the drab apartment houses on the Communist side have been bricked up and doors bolted or barred from the basement level to the sixth floor. This is to stop the jumpers who have been leaping to freedom via the nets of willing West Berlin firemen on the street below. The trick is to toss a note into the street ("Urgent! Call the fire department! I am coming down in ten minutes!"), then pray that the nets arrive before the Communist Volkspolizei...
Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...
...this reader, his puerile exegeses of such systems of theology, philosophy, epistemology and, for that matter, bath-taking, as he has brought under the batteries of his irredeemably third-class mind bring much the same kind of pain as does unexpectedly bending back a fingernail below the quick...
...ring bathrobe and droopy trunks, which "made him look like a guy who just got out of a hotel fire in time." When pint-sized Jerry Barber won the P.G.A. golf tournament, Murray suggested that Barber was "the only guy who ever won that trophy who could take a bath...