Word: shower
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...fact, while Kuwaitis were the most notorious among the gulf nationalities for flaunting their wealth and easy life-style, the Aug. 2 invasion was a cold shower for most of them. Though a few youths still dance the nights away, many of their peers are at the front. An estimated 23,000 Kuwaitis are believed to be under arms in Saudi Arabia. Only 7,000 are military personnel who escaped from Kuwait; the rest are volunteers. When an exile group in Cairo organized a training program for nurse's aides, 500 Kuwaitis applied for the 120 slots. Other displaced Kuwaitis...
...Kuwait's rigs that would put as much as 50,000 tons of soot into the sky each day. "We see no way it's going to get to the upper atmosphere," says Michael MacCracken, who headed the project. "It will get rained out." A black, oily shower was descending upon Iran not long after last week's fires began...
Street Beat workers travel around in a minivan and a 31-ft.-long recreational vehicle, a wheeled medical-office-cum-rest-area equipped with an examination room, bathroom, shower and kitchen. The unit handles everything from minor scrapes and pregnancy screening to gunshot wounds. Forty-five percent of those tested for the AIDS virus are positive. "These kids operate outside the law and the health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner...
...trail and suddenly notices a strange tree root. It rattles! Downhower skids to a panicked stop and gives the alarm. The rattlesnake simply slithers into the bushes. At a 19th century "Mexican" village whose cantina is stocked with root beer, Dennis Meade, 18, finds a rare gas-fired outdoor shower in a meadow. He also notices a barrel-shaped relocation trap on rubber wheels awaiting an especially pesky local bear. In the shower Meade hears a noise. The bear has walked into the dressing enclosure; he and the animal stare at each other for a tense moment until the bear...
Another time, Shuffelton came out of the shower to find Lauderdale "dancing around the room, saying, `I just bought 220 candy canes!'" Lauderdale explained that the Coop was having a sale, Shuffleton says. "It was kind of a typical Thomas thing to do...I remember thinking, `this just sums up living with Thomas...