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Word: bathtubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had gone ice on him; the last cigarette in the house from before his arm went limp was floating around on top, shedding little brown slivers of tobacco that slid down their individual chutes to the porcelain tub bottom...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

This album is a haunting prophecy in the light of Morrison's alcoholic, drug-shot death, which finally found him at peace in a bathtub in Paris, dead at 27 after a massive heart attack. Jim Morrison could never grow...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Voice Of the Dead | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

Insanity continued to be the rule in Ivy League football Saturday as Yale and Dartmouth lost breathtakers in the closing seconds, and Brown emerged from its early-season siesta to churn through Princeton like an Evinrude in a bathtub...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Elis Lose First | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...alone remained unblunted. In vited to a preview of a film about an alcoholic, The Lost Weekend, he declined wryly: "Would you invite Admiral Halsey to play with the boats in your baby's bathtub?" Even when it was directed at someone else, Mank's lance was really pointed toward himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Wit | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

After nearly an hour, Peacock cut the twin Mercuries. "This is the spot!" he called. We floated noiselessly on a dusky patch of sea. The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream. Broadbills normally stay hundreds of feet down-one reason they are so hard to catch-but in the early '70s, Cuban refugee fishermen discovered that these fish rose from the depths at night, apparently to feed on squid that in turn were feeding on microscopic plankton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stalking the Broadbill | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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