Word: bathing
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...belief, and as editor and lover, she "had put herself in the service of such people. Perhaps she had done so because she wished to be more like them, although she knew she belonged to another, lesser species, the race of people who answer their phones and fold the bath towels." Like modern folk everywhere, she also yearns for meaning in life, or at least an organizing principle, and Paul's ego is big enough to provide it, "to make life cohere, like...
...Democratic gains in the proper perspective, we must first consider their 1980 losses. In that year incumbent defeats in divisive primaries, scandal, and infirmity account for five seats. The defeats of prominent liberals like Bath, Church, Culver, Durkin, McGovern and Nelson were the basis of the grand interpretations of the outcomes. But as a class these were exceedingly vulnerable candidates. Excepting Nelson, their average vote in the preceding election was 53 percent, and their previous election was 1974--the most disastrous Republican year in a generation. In short, these liberal Senators were living on borrowed time. Had 1974 been...
...fact, Connery is on terra cognita since William of Baskerville has been called in to investigate the mysterious circumstances of the death of a fair, young monk. As other monks are found dead in boiling cauldrons and bath tubs, the Spanish Inquisition bandwagon arrives to look into the matter...
Some revisions are minor or obvious. Dated references to streetcars, sleeping powders and the children's game drop the handkerchief will come out. The statement "I like to take a bath," which had been attracting "false" answers from shower lovers, will become "I like to take a bath or a shower...
...bargained for a very run-down piece of land on which we spent $800 to build a two-room cottage without the amenities of plumbing or electricity on a rural unpaved road. Conditions eventually improved -- the road was paved and we did get electricity and running water, but no bath facility for 16 years...