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Word: bathtubful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...delegation from Ghana at the table, he raised a toast to "Africa and all countries fighting for their independence." Said Khrushchev: "Our hearts are on their side. People are the same all over the world. One cannot tell a czar from anyone else. All people look alike in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Are In No Hurry | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...wear a waist cincher that squeezes her, boned bras that dig her, heels that tilt her to the sensitive balls of her feet." But it is all worth it because "clothes have to do with happiness, and can actually give a woman personality. A woman in a bathtub has little personality; she's just a woman without clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: How Not to Wear a Tub | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...doctor was trying to figure one out, he tripped over the sitter's foot, fell headlong against the bathtub and knocked himself cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stuck by the Tale | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...sooner has the customer rubbed his magic wallet than presto! the first monster, a 50-ft. orange Cyclops, materializes on the screen and comes charging straight at him-the colossal eye rolling around in its prodigious socket like a cannon ball in a bathtub, the fangs dripping like bloody stalactites. Luckily, the wicked magician (Torin Thatcher) puts a whammy on the brute, but then he also puts a whammy on the beautiful princess (played by Kathryn Grant, billed as "Mrs. Bing Crosby"). Unfortunately, the audience will not get much of a look at the young celebrity. When the magician gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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