Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this century, New Yorkers could get a glass of water in a restaurant only if they specifically asked for it. Residents were forbidden (on pain of fines) to water lawns or gardens, wash cars, turn on fountains. In Manhattan men's rooms, signs cautioned: DON'T FLUSH FOR EVERYTHING...
Battalions of workers struggled to plant trees, lay pavement, erect lamp posts. Air-conditioning and simultaneous-translation equipment was installed but not hooked up. Toilets refused to flush. Generators stood uncrated in the sand. At least ten of 65 new villas for visiting chiefs of state had no walls. To add to the confusion at "Shambles-onSea," as newsmen dubbed Des Pins, the multimillion-dollar conference hall at week's end was ripped by a violent explosion-presumably the work of anti-government terrorists...
...Furniture. Two-thirds of these sales are earned by Samsonite's familiar, streamlined luggage, which is recognized, used and often inadvertently exchanged by travelers around the world. Its dent-proof magnesium frame, flush snap locks, and a plastic skin that can withstand everything from the -50° F, cold in an airliner's cargo compartment to the rough treatment of baggage handlers, have lifted luggage sales almost beyond Samsonite's capacity. The company has placed its 13-acre Denver luggage plant on a seven-day, round-the-clock schedule, is actively scouting sites for three additional plants...
3/4-in. solid-core wood, but it has a panel at the bottom that slides flush with the floor upon closing, eliminating that critical acoustical gap found at the bottom of most bathroom doors. To ensure further privacy, most builders added extra insulation to bathroom walls wrapped pipes in rubber, and installed toilets that flush almost without a sound...
...women and children, as they had done in a similar situation last year, South Vietnamese troops tried to knock out everybody with gas. They failed because of adverse winds, and had to retreat. The last use of gas was on Jan. 27, when Viet Nam government troops tried to flush a guerrilla force from a heavily fortified network of trenches, tunnels and caves, but again were foiled by tricky winds...