Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen-Castle is planning a floor-mounted windshield-wiper device that will softly brush across moviegoers' feet and ankles at crucial moments...
...prevailing mentality in the White House is, in its way, nearly as revealing as that of the Nixon transcripts. In the best locker-room and fraternity tradition, all the President's men had their nicknames. John Dean told the Ervin committee last year about H.R. ("The Brush") Haldeman and John ("The Pipe") Mitchell, but Magruder adds to the list. Transportation Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above...
Coed dormitories have become so numerous over the past five years that more than half the nation's resident college students now live in them. Do men and women who eat, study and brush their teeth together also tend to go to bed together? How does living in close proximity (which may range from neighboring rooms to adjacent wings) affect the way they feel about each other? With a survey of a small sampling of 96 Radcliffe girls, Psychiatrist Elizabeth Aub Reid gives some answers in the current American Journal of Psychiatry...
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...jungle, where he had continued fighting World War II. The findings: Onoda is healthier than most of his contemporaries who live off the fat of the land. His body is supple, his muscle tone is good and his animal instincts are honed: his eyes move constantly, he hears clothing brush against skin, and he wakes fully alert at the slightest noise...