Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the glitter which the Associates furnish for their customers, the operation remains relatively simple on the inside. For example, Johnson still washes the glasses in his bathtub and keeps twenty cases of mix in his room because there's no other space for storing them...
...begin with," said Gordon, addressing a meeting of the National Safety Congress in Chicago, "it is completely unrealistic even to talk about a foolproof and crashproof car. An automobile must still be something that people will want to buy and use. Safety, in any environment from a bathtub to a bomb shelter, is a relative term, not an absolute. In the case of the automobile, we can only design into it the greatest degree of safety that is consistent with other essential functional characteristics. Beyond that, we must depend on intelligent...
...Holly, the child bride from Tulip, Texas, who at 15 runs away to Hollywood to find some of the finer things of life-like shoes. At 18, she is established in a posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair of shoes), a telephone (in a suitcase), a pink cat (without a name) and a bottle of Scotch (for wetting Holly's whistle and Scotch-and-watering the flowers). And every Thursday. Holly dutifully goes...
...culled by Editor Forgue from his massive correspondence of 15,000. "Of my inventions," he once wrote, "I am vainest of Bible Belt, booboisie, smuthound and Boobus americanus." The list is revealing. It bears the date and the outdatedness of the '20s, along with such storied fossils as bathtub gin, the Black Bottom and the Stutz Bearcat. The fate of a successful iconoclast is to be buried with the icons he smashed...
...tornadoes that are spawned by powerful hurricanes, and sometimes account for a good part of their damage, are mysterious, too. Meteorologists say that they are caused by the rapidly rising air on the rim of the storm and are similar to the eddies in water flowing out of a bathtub, but no one knows just when to expect the dangerous twisters. Usually they are much smaller than Kansas-type tornadoes, and last only a few minutes, whipping down to earth to splinter a few blocks of buildings and then dissipate...