Word: bathtubful
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...poetry could not be fully expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did." The poetry of John Donne replaced the pipes, Shakespeare the bathtub and Emily Dickinson the kitchen sink. The minor poets replaced the toilet. Then the lover of good verse ran into some trouble. When he went to the toilet the minor poets began gossiping about their careers. He decided that the poetry simply wouldn't do as plumbing but it refused...
...Dallas stores, or design football bumper stickers and sell them to alumni. Some enterprises die aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer and a transistorized gadget that would automatically squirt out air freshener every few minutes. But, as Bob Lyle, the 30-year-old acting dean, points out, even failure teaches students something about business...
...inheritor of those "little Springer hands" that preclude championship ball control. In his first escape attempt, Rabbit sought solace with a girl nearly as melancholy as himself. But he had to return home to bury his baby daughter who drowned after a drunken Janice misplaced the child in the bathtub...
...with a weakness for overstretched metaphor: "Her dentures clattered like castanets on crusts of French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke
...night before, the British had confidently filled a bathtub with bottles of Luxembourg champagne and ice. Now they broke out the bubbly. "This is a historic day," declared Rippon. His sentiments were echoed throughout the capitals of Europe. The successful completion of the latest British negotiations, which first began in earnest last fall in Brussels, meant that membership also seems certain for Norway, Ireland and Denmark. By 1973, the Six may well be the Ten, with a combined economic strength surpassing the Soviet Union's and rivaling even the U.S.'s. The French, whose changed attitude made...