Word: shower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Selim's only son, Suleiman the Magnificent, was probably responsible for a good part of the collection. Under him, the empire stretched to the Adriatic Sea and gobbled up Rhodes. Suleiman's admirals could pillage the Mediterranean, and it was thought proper for a grateful admiral to shower his sultan with gifts...
...there is the problem of such next-generation weapons as the "neutron" bomb, now a drawing-board idea that testing might bring to reality. Compared with existing nuclear weapons, the neutron bomb would be cheaper and more adaptable to military purposes in the sense that its deadly "bullets" would shower specific areas without long-lasting contamination (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959). The first power to possess the neutron bomb will gain great military superiority. The Soviets, by their own admission, were experimenting with the neutron process as far back...
Today's brides have fewer engagement parties than in the past, are deluged instead by the 20th century equivalent of the dowry: showers of every variety, both practical and kooky, pour forth the loot. Karla Francisco, 21, a fourth-generation Californian who is marrying Thomas T. Hammond, 22, at her family's luxurious hacienda, had a relatively conventional kitchen shower. But other brides have an appliance shower, a crystal shower, a china shower, a paper shower, a lingerie shower, a bathroom shower, and "vice" shower (liquor, brandy, wine). In Detroit's suburban Bloomfield Hills, Patti Bugas...
Because of the number of showers, the task of picking a wedding present is increasingly difficult. Used more widely and efficiently than ever before is the custom of the bride's giving a department store a list of acceptable gifts; wedding guests may then call the store, buy their gifts. Like many another bridegroom, Washington's Jonathan Roosevelt, 21, son of Kermit Roosevelt and great-grandson of T.R., gaped at the store-sized inventory of presents ("Look at all that stuff") before his marriage this week to Jae Barlow, 20, a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe. Latest count...
...when brisk, jet-borne academic types whisk in and out of Washington, the legendary absent-minded professor is an anachronism. But New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook still conforms to that older, homelier image; he has been known to enter the shower wearing pajamas, and he once absently rejected the Oedipus Complex as a tool of philosophy by exclaiming: "I learned that stuff at my mother's knee...