Word: faucet
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...they not? . . . When I was a boy, Good Americans were-believe it or don't-adoring the Japanese and loathing the Russians. . . . When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet...
...basic items of Schaible's wonderful kitchen ("Costs no more than a good six-room house") are a 105-mm. twin-spout faucet, jutting formidably from a revolving turret in the center of the kitchen; and a glistening floor which is at once a swimming pool, ice rink, washing machine, merry-go-round and giant strainer. (Schaible's chief products: faucets and strainers.) Other wonders...
...father of progressive education, quietly celebrated his 85th birthday in his Manhattan home, calmly reaffirmed his belief in education through scientific inquiry. Professor Dewey, who raised all of his six children by progressive methods, then recalled that one day his five-year-old son had turned on a kitchen faucet, could not turn it off, flooded the room, ran into his father's study and shouted: "Don't say a word, John; get the mop." Professor Dewey smilingly remembered that...
...comrade was not to be caught. "Put them under a faucet and then you'll see. No, brother, our Ryazan girls are better. They use no trickery...
Somoza makes it his business to turn his effervescent charm full-faucet on U.S. diplomats and officials. James Bolton Stewart, now U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, speaks up stoutly for Somoza's "stable" administration. Tacho, who likes a pun, has amiably referred to the Ambassador as "my steward...