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...told my mom and she gave me a facecloth to wipe it off," Zefnaf says...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making a Difference | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...virtually no skin contact with their relatives, and Chrisha's mother and grandmother said they can only touch her with their scrubbed hands. Christine Froio said that not being able to kiss Chrisha is "the worst feeling in the world." As a partial solution, Cudmore said she puts a facecloth on Chrisha's head in order to kiss...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Moving Day at Children's Hospital | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...dame wid tin legs). Some classic Brooklyn expressions, he adds, come directly from the Gaelic: whudda card (joker) is a corruption of caird (an itinerant tramp); put da kibosh on it (put an end to it) comes from caip baish, or cap of death, a facecloth that inhabitants of southwest Ireland placed over a corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Dem Were Da Days | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bicycle Boom | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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