Word: bathmat
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...dogs lay curled together on the bathmat. Alfred snorted and thumped his tail in his sleep which caused Girl to sigh and wake...
...into the hotel and asked for my bath. I was told that the baths were available for men only." Undaunted, she swept upstairs alone, found four vacant bathrooms and took her a bath. "There was no towel," she told the clubwomen, "so I had to dry myself on the bathmat...
...Turkey, a wealthy American tourist, recoiling from the native bread, which was flat as a bathmat, was overjoyed at the sight of crisp, crusted, American-style loaves. He sought out the baker, found he was a Protestant missionary named Cyrus Hamlin. Missionary Hamlin convinced wealthy, grateful Tourist Christopher Robert that the Turks needed education even more than better bread, talked him into endowing the first U.S. college in the Near East...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala. hospital, a sick-looking boy slowly knots a tufted bathmat. "Well," says he, "they talked me into it." In the gymnasium a muscular Negro happily plays basketball while his attendant waits (only a couple of weeks ago, he had to be held down by five men to be forcibly fed). Outside, other NPs (neuropsychiatric patients) and men with the new scars of plastic surgery drill with 50-lb. dumbbells...
...above is the real McCoy. Mr. Priestley's recipe (TIME, Feb. 19) when finished must have the consistency and digestibility of a rubber bathmat and need a hacksaw to "cut in squares." No authentic Yorkshire Pudding was ever "turned over" to be "done on the other side." It has the temperament of a soufflé and should be treated as gently...
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