Word: shower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oppressive ceilings of Adams House. But outside his own room, he pays for a heightened freedom of movement with his inability to be at ease or in scale against alien objects or in alien environments. He's lost, often quite literally, insuch differing surroundings as a mortuary-like IAB shower room and the lush mechanical complexity of the Loeb shop...
Some 310 million leaflets will shower enemy areas, more than 1,000 for every Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldier. The theme of this year's campaign is aimed at the enemy's softer instincts, and is embodied in the official Tet poster of maidens carrying bouquets of apricot flowers. One local leaflet elaborates on the theme by tying it to Operation Cedar Falls, which razed V.C. farms and granaries in the Iron Triangle last month. "Are your rations scarce?" it asks. "Three hundred of you have rallied, and they are now where they can be well...
Giants & Minors. The biggest show of all-the 46th semiannual exhibit of the National Housewares Manufacturers Association-had been about to open. Nearly 1,240 exhibitors, ranging from giants like General Electric and Westinghouse down to minor manufacturers of shower curtains and shish kebabers, had set up exhibits and were prepared to write orders from buyers converging from all parts of the country. Then, late at night, fire suddenly broke out in a booth in the main exhibition hall. Within 15 minutes, McCormick Place was an inferno; because of the intensity of the fire and its rapid spread...
...world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless-steel tubing and a ski cable festoon the fronts of the other two. The apparatus eerily suggests scuba gear, gas masks, or an astronaut's breathing equipment-items necessary, in Trova's view, to habilitate man for "an alien atmosphere...
...cadets still must perform push-ups-but no longer over a bayonet; the yearly dose of close-order drill has been slashed by 70 per cent. Gone are the interminable handson-heels "duck walks" that once sent Douglas MacArthur to a hospital. Forbidden, too, are such hazing tortures as "shower formation," in which plebes braced at attention until perspiration soaked their bathrobes. Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?"* a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet...