Word: baths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered that, to act in the college plays, she had to get high grades. She got them. She also alternated between living like a hermit and making a public show of herself. Sometimes she would wait until the rest of the dormitory was asleep before she would take a bath. But once, she took a bath in the library fountain and rolled herself dry on the grass. She got away with that one. But when she was caught smoking a cigarette (her first), she was suspended, briefly...
...announced that it was custom-fitting (for some $100,000) a Douglas DC-4 as an aerial palace for His Majesty. Among the accessories: a raised throne which revolves a full 360° and has an extra-heavy-duty safety belt; an oversized bed in a bedroom complete with bath; an elevator; 18 luxurious chair seats. The plane is expected to be ready for delivery this month in time to carry the King from his winter quarters in Ryadh to the summer palace in Taif to lead off the annual pilgrimage of Moslems to Mecca...
Said Skouras: "I think I can do more for my country in my private life"-a paradox which, true or false, lost nothing from its delivery in a steam bath...
Chaucer, Coghill observes, delighted to silence his own voice and speak with the tongues of characters as varied and opinionated as the Knight, the Wife of Bath and the Clerk of Oxford. It is this multilingual mixture which makes the Tales a "concise portrait of an entire nation, high and low, old and young, male and female, lay and clerical, learned and ignorant." To revive this effect, Coghill decided to modernize the people's looks as well as their language, to suggest their old status by putting them in modern context. Where Chaucer, for example, says of the carpenter...
...Cold Turkey." After routine admission procedures (including a bath so that they can be searched for dope), the inmates are put in observation wards and taken off the drug. If they can be withdrawn from drugs at once ("cold turkey"), so much the better; if their withdrawal symptoms are too severe for that, they are tapered off. No ward has more than four beds. Each youngster will clean up his own room and do his personal laundry. Many hours a day are set aside for interviews with psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. There are first-class facilities for home economics...