Word: faucets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over me to revive me, all the while making remarks about the war in Vietnam and the "world gendarmes of the U.S." Finally I was carried to another partly bare cell with a toilet where my pants were ripped off to give me a shot to tranquilize me. The faucet on the toilet was dismantled to prevent me from sucking up any water from the toilet during the hunger strike. These were the same guards who had recently passed out copies of the East paper "Young World" (Junge Welt) which told the story of Angela Davis, American communist, who drank...
...proved harder. Garfield's white nursing director quit shortly after the merger: Showalter desperately replaced her with a black male nurse who lacked the generally required bachelor's degree. Other appointments were equally unorthodox. Garfield's personnel director is a former inventory clerk at a local faucet factory; the food-service manager is a onetime hospital kitchen worker whose ability to run a kitchen more than compensates for her lack of training in dietetics...
Waterbeds are empty and easy to handle when delivered from the store. They can be filled by connecting a hose to a bathroom faucet (wise owners will also pour in a healthy slug of Clorox to ward off the formation of algae). But once filled, the waterbed becomes almost impossible to move; a king-size version will weigh around...
...Cool, Cool Water" is an equally preposterous tribute to water. The song is full of electronic simulations of rainstorms and water flowing from a faucet in varying degrees of intensity. The song is backed up by incredibly complex harmonies and punctuated by the lyrics (sung a cappella ): "In the ocean or in a glass/Cool water is such...
...watched one of his friends hurl a grenade into a group of ten women and children: "You could hear the screams and then the sound and then see the pieces of bodies scatter out, and the whole area just suddenly turned red like somebody had turned on a faucet." Why didn't he stop his buddy? "All you had to do was take one look at his face. I think if I had even said a word to him at all, he would have turned and killed me and not thought a damn thing about...