Word: baths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know why or by who, just knows that he hurts and it's cold and he can't stay much longer because the good guys don't want his germs in their apple pie and there's only a seat in the church pew if you've had a bath in the last week. And he tries to light a joint; fourth time defeats the wind and the drizzle. The match illuminates thin, brittle wrists, hollow brown face, crows-feet that are a mockery on this head with eyes that could be 15 or 50, skin drawn tight, and always...
Tell all your readers to come to El Paso. You can find a nice three-bedroom, two-bath home in a good neighborhood for around $35,000. Furthermore, our taxes-state, county, school district, hospital, city-run about 1% to 2% of the market value of the house. There are no state or local income taxes...
...never knew how deprived I was to have to sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion or soap and water are all about...
Your cover tells it like it is; Uncle Sam is "taking a bath" on this deal...
Most buyers want more space and amenities, and they are buying a lot more house than in previous years. In 1950 the typical new house was only 894 sq. ft. in area, usually with two bedrooms, one bath, no garage and few built-in appliances. By 1971 the median dwelling had grown to 1,375 sq. ft. and last year to 1,590 sq. ft. Almost half of today's new homes have central air conditioning (up from little more than one-third in 1971), and two-thirds have two or more bathrooms (up from one-half in 1971). Says...