Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate's first foray into politics, a bid for the Ohio Senate seat held by Democrat Stephen Young, ended in frustration and dizzy spells when he took a header on a bath mat, injured his inner ear, and had to pull out of the race. That was 1964. This time, the first American to orbit the earth will take no chances. John Glenn, 48, announced that he will seek the post to be vacated by Young's retirement. "It will be the dirtiest campaign ever," he promised. "I won't take a bath...
...three days that I was there-and each one lasted longer as the crew tried to keep to its daily schedule-I felt cut off from the rest of the world. There was nothing to do expect read, talk to other people, or go to the bath-rooms to warm...
...provincial cities. The average resident of one of Britain's planned new towns lives better than his counterpart in London. Yet London, notes Robert Ardrey, author of The Territorial Imperative, was a great city "even when the food was terrible, and you couldn't get a hot bath." Stockholm, Geneva and Johannesburg, by contrast, are three of the most comfortable cities in the world, but not one of them has even a shadowy claim to greatness...
...Clark continued. "The average American female I think feels she's quite clean. She takes lots of showers and baths and uses bath oil and all that. It isn't until this is brought to her attention that she might have vaginal odor or does have vaginal odor that [she realizes] there's one area she hasn't taken care...
...proper Simpson's-in-the-Strand, temporary membership and gambling privileges at the Victoria Sporting Club, a pair of tickets to a West End musical or play, and free admission to eleven dizzy discotheques and five dance halls. Ticket holders would also be entitled to hotel reservations, private bath and "full English breakfast," though it was not promised that the "scientifically chosen" date would share those. Surprisingly enough, the seemingly irresistible BOAC tour did not get off the ground...