Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexander's wide-eyed but not very sensitive view provides a short crarri course on the ways men have discovered to dehumanize themselves. For a start, Maclnnes and young Alexander rub the reader's nose in the flog-grog-and-vomit life of the British seaman...
...necessary, or even effective? Neither, says Dr. Thomas Charles Dann, medical officer of the University College of Swansea in Wales. The usual, perfunctory five-second swabbing of the skin is far too brief for any of the antiseptics used to sterilize the area. As proof that this "routine rub is rubbish," Dann reports in the Lancet that more than 5,000 injections have been given in the past six years at the Swansea medical center without the preshot cleansing. No infections have developed...
...forced her frustrated trainers to rub her horse's legs with cold cream made by her company...
...Rub-a-Double-Tub A bath's a fine and private place, And some, I think, do there embrace...
President Nixon is rarely referred to by name; instead, he is "what's-his-face," "whosis," and "the Great Kiwani." The kidnaping of the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil is interpreted as "a unique opportunity for a diplomat to get out of the embassy compound and rub elbows with the common people, cultural exchange, that kind of thing." A congressional committee meeting in its ornate chambers to investigate a student uprising is like "chasing S.D.S. across America in an 1890 Pullman car." Judge Julius Hoffman of the Chicago conspiracy trial is "the teeny judge, who bounces up and down...