Word: baths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were arrested on state charges of conspiracy to disrupt trade and commerce. (Maximum penalty: eleven months and 29 days and/or $1,000 fine.) They were quickly bailed out; 16 Vanderbilt divinity faculty members posted bond for Lawson. Meanwhile, worried Mayor Ben West ("Please, let's avoid a blood bath in this community") met with a newly appointed bi-racial committee to seek a solution...
...city, Bulawayo (pop. 168,000), where 10,000 men, women and children crowded into the stadium in an unsegregated mixture of black, white, brown. "No American city would stage such a turnout on a Saturday," said Billy. "That's the day we do our shopping and take a bath at night...
Author Dahl's gallery of females includes a warmhearted landlady of Bath with gentle blue eyes and an enviable talent in taxidermy. Tiny Mrs. Foster, on the other hand, has a soft and rather silly look and shows agitation only when fearing she may miss a train or plane. Hearty Miss Roach is grand fun at country weekends, and her skill at games is evidenced by her large pink face, broad shoulders and bulging calves...
What did Joans ("My poems are American neo-Dadaism") have to say to such an audience? "I told them what the beats are really like," he explains. "Everybody thinks the beats always smoke pot, smell horrible, and all that jazz. I take a bath every day, man. People also think beat girls like free sex. Listen, some of these chicks are so far out that's the last thing they think of. One I know says, 'Sit across the room; just being near me should be sexy enough...
...contact lenses were first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath, and development of the tiny corneal lens, which...