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Word: bathtubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rose's apartment has two rooms, the kitchen and an all-purpose room where the seven of them sleep. Benjamin, Daisy and Sabrina sleep in the bed. Davey, Joey and Dino sleep on the floor. Rose takes the couch. They have no phone; the bathtub leaks; the ceiling is splotched with water stains. Yet this is the best place they've ever had. For a month before this, Rose and the children lived in a car, and bathing was carried out in Rose's girlfriend's apartment. Compared with then, Rose says, the sky's the limit these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...sandbox and a swing. Charles, who has less time, is far warmer with his children than his father was with him. (William calls him Daddy; Charles called his father Papa.) Recently Diana, concerned that she and Charles would be late for an appointment, found him in the bathtub with Wills (as William is known in the family), splashing about and having a jolly old time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...used the "World's Longest Urinal." As I was doing my thing along with 200 other people (mostly men), a bathtub toy floated by in front of me. Someone reached down to grab it but then had second thoughts and retracted...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Running on Empty | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...antic science. A percolator and an electric corn popper hooked up to a clock radio allow him to wake up to brewed coffee and popped corn. Bed making is eliminated by stitching a sleeping bag from a sheet. To save time and kilowatts, the laundry is thrown into the bathtub and stomped clean under the shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent with an Explanation the Accidental Tourist | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...barred windows of the home they shared on Don Carlos Drive. "I could hear her hollering," said Neighbor Tyrone Tyler. "She had to be on fire." But no one could get into the house in time to save Street or her housemate. Near by, Marie Gladden, 62, filled a bathtub and jumped in to avoid the flames, but her body was found in the rubble of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fiery Tale of Two Cities | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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