Word: shower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a hotel room and sat down to make some necklaces for the concert. My nerves, a bit frayed, were not helped any when the hotel's proprietess banged on our door and threatened to arrest us for overflowing the shower. Now I knew that doing one to five on an illegal bathing rap was unlikely, but this small town and its seemingly endless supply of cops would take the word of a respectable citizen against two dirty, hippy-looking hitch hikers, so we ignored her demands to open the door lest she see our jewelry spread...
Captain Carl Yastrzemski sat glumly outside the shower room, talking privately to some friends, grinding his teeth over belting two Kip Young fastballs three feet short of the bullpen out in center field. "I don't know what to do," he said...
...night was March 6, 1973, and Bertagna--currently Harvard's sports information director and at the time the starting goaltender for the Crimson's hockey team--was scarfing a cheeseburg club at Elsie's Deli, his hair still wet from a shower at Dillon Field House...
Gayle and Chip Swett, both 35, live well by any standard. Chip earns about $35,000 a year as a stockbroker, while Gayle designs and produces shower curtains; this year she hopes to sell $75,000 worth. They paid $80,000 last year for their five-bedroom colonial house in Sherborn, Mass, and recently filled up the place with everything from expensive wicker furniture to a large freezer. They have bought a country-club membership ($2,000 a year), two cars, two TVs and a long list of high-priced appliances. Says Gayle: "All I lack is a Cuisinart...
Though they were nearing the end of their second month in space, Kovalenok and Ivanchenkov appeared to be thriving aboard Salyut, understandably. The spacious ship includes such amenities as a new electronic control system that the Soviets say can take over navigation and control chores from the crew, a shower (Skylab has one too) and a small water-recycling plant. There is also an abundance of scientific equipment, for both observing the earth and performing tests in space. Last week, for instance, the cosmonauts began a new experiment with sprouting seeds to see how well they might grow in zero...