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Word: bathtubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...versed in Western ways, but many arrive with no more social accomplishments than scratching and giggling. The Y.W.C.A. instructors patiently help them through the tangles of Western underwear, show them how to manipulate knives and forks instead of dipping their hands into their food. One instructor climbs into a bathtub and demonstrates how to take a bath. Students find the toilet the most fascinating of all Western gadgets, happily flush it repeatedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Higher Education | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...childbirth. Others are the result of surgery. Such a case is described by Baylor University's Dr. Denton Cooley and colleagues in the A.M.A. Journal. A woman of 37 was sent home, apparently doing well, eleven days after a hysterectomy. Next morning, as she climbed out of the bathtub, she collapsed, gasping for breath and suffering intense pain in the chest. Back she went to Jefferson Davis Hospital, where doctors did everything possible to boost her blood pressure and reduce the risk of further clotting. She was failing fast, 40 hours after her embolism, when Surgeon Cooley recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Clots in the Lungs | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...problem, or if the family requires more comfort while in the throes of facing the wilderness, get a portable gas stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter, a versatile instrument that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ah, Wilderness? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

Redundantly voted "The World's Most Muliebrous Woman" by the French Parfum Distributors Association, Cinemactress Tina (God's Little Acre) Louise donned a blue bikini and tucked an orchid in her bosom to receive her reward: a dunk in a bathtub full of Arpege at a Manhattan showroom. Tina sloshed hundreds of dollars of Lanvin's best over the side when she sank in, then slithered out. cooing "Now you can say, 'Promise him anything, but give him Louise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...middle-aged hollow man who, in the bright past before Act I, used to be a brilliant young professor at a girls' college. But an old accusation hangs over him: he had seduced a trustee's daughter, who, when jilted by him, committed suicide in his bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road: Hasten, Jason! | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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