Word: nonskid
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...called Dr. Donna Benton, a gerontologist at the University of Southern California (no, Mom, I did not say anything about your slippery new bathroom tile, which, if it did come up, was mentioned only in the context of nonskid tub strips), and described how I had broached the subject...
That would be very emotionally mature. Me? Next time I speak to my mother, I will mention the nonskid daisies I bought for my shower...
...number of deaths caused by falls and drug overdoses surged 21%. One reason: the growing number of elderly who are too frail to recover completely from falls that result in fractures. To protect this fast-growing segment of the population, the council plans to propose new building codes, including nonskid bathroom floors, more handles in housing for the elderly and better warning labels on commonly taken medications...
...yacht on grounds that clergymen and others connected with their business had to be entertained in a more cheery atmosphere than that afforded by a mortuary, of a company that got a $16,943 business deduction for "use of yacht to demonstrate to customers the value of sneakers with nonskid soles...
...holder of U.S. Patent No. 2,850,023, Idaho's one-term (1944-50) Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor, was in Manhattan at the headquarters of the business based on his invention-a no-itch, nonskid toupee. As president of Taylor Topper, toupee-topped Taylor, a veteran campaign guitar strummer and vice-presidential candidate of the pink-tinged Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business...