Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your teeth in a jar and those teeth say, 'Yes I can, yes I can.' [At this point Sister Boogie Woman puffs with exertion.] 'Yes I can. Yes I can.' I say think of yourself as a potato chip and life as a dip. I say think of yourself as a chicken leg and life as Shake 'n Bake...
What then? After the Titanic sank, an outraged public demanded a special Senate committee to discover why so many fine people from the Social Register had to take an unscheduled dip in the Atlantic that April night. The Smith Committee held exhaustive hearings, asking tough questions that ranged from the topic of what the guilty iceberg was made of ("Ice," replied the ship's Fifth Officer) to the chances of salvage. Another crew member answered that question with the choking reply, "No, no, she went down like a rock and now she's gone--they'll never raise...
Future modifications and money saving programs under study by Food Services include the possible replacement of the frozen liquid concentrate coffee, known to be labeled "sheep dip," now used by most dining halls. In its place would go coffee similar to that now served at Adams House. While the ground coffee is overwhelmingly more popular than the liquid concentrate, the capital investment for machines and additional labor may nip the proposal...
...number called "Heaven Would Be Hell Without You" has phrases astonishingly like Jerome Kern's "Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine," and Leonard Bernstein could claim at least a one per cent royalty. But the best music is Barklay's own and sprightly. The lyrics rise and dip, more to Appalachian than Olympic heights and similarly on the downward scale. The choreography is mostly precise and beautifully executed, especially a magnificent number called, "Raising Your Spirits," in which a line of ersatz dames in devil suits (a genre for which I myself have always had a soft spot...
Though any dip in the Ganges washes away all previous sins, the Kumbh Mela offers an incomparably greater benefit. As the ancient poet Kalidas said, "Purified by a bath at the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna, a person attains salvation after death even without acquiring true knowledge." For last week's pilgrims, this means that at death they will at last escape the endless cycle of birth and rebirth, and enter the bliss of union with the absolute...