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Word: shower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site, finding drinkable water, sleeping on rib-gouging ground-not to mention the horrors of pitching a tent in a wind. Nowadays, however, the compleat camper can drive right up to the lakeside or forest glade where he plans to spend the night and immediately cook supper, take a shower and bunk down, regardless of the terrain or weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The In Way to Camp Out | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Nature Plus TV. The simplest models cost about $500, but a variety of optional extras can bring the cost of the housing unit alone to $5,500. Among them: enclosed toilet ($90), shower ($210), hot-water heater ($140), storm windows ($45), refrigerator (about $170), air conditioner (about $250). One model even has a roof that slides out and canvas panels that come down to provide additional shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The In Way to Camp Out | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...bargain-basement luxury is, first, that all food is served buffet style and its cost is not included in the fare; a passenger may eat and drink as lightly as his budget or digestion permits. Secondly, he pays for his berth in the single-class cabins (with toilet and shower) on a sliding scale of privacy ranging from $10 (one way) in a cabin for four to $40 for a cabin all to oneself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: And Now--the Boatel | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...This Is the Time." Now consumer goods have become the second wave of exports. In both Britain and France, American appliances sell well because they are available in more imaginative sizes and shapes for different kinds of kitchens. Demand is rising for such disparate items as colonial furniture and shower curtains, for air conditioners and suntan lotions, and for such soft goods as sportswear, bathing suits, children's dresses, lingerie and men's pajamas. In Germany, of all places, the sales of U.S. photo equipment-notably the new Kodak Instamatic camera-have jumped nearly 300% in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Trade: An Urge for the Yankee Label | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...several occasions, she said, frantic young ladies have phoned to say that they just stepped out of the shower clad in a towel, are expecting a date to call any minute, and are locked out of their rooms. (These cries for help are calmly referred to the University police...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Message Center Will Deliver Sonnets | 7/7/1964 | See Source »

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