Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost as an afterthought, the assertion that without a locker men would dress in street clothes without taking a shower was added as a further reason. That slim chance was not even considered during the spring, when the lockers were taken voluntarily. Come now, gentlemen; give the undergraduate credit for some intelligence...
...Japanese had launched 1,000 mustard and lewisite gas attacks against the Chinese. The heaviest (TIME, Nov. 10) were in the battle for Ichang, in October 1941. On May 26, the Japanese forced a crossing of the Singang River near Kienteh by sending planes ahead to shower gas bombs on the defenders. A fortnight ago the Japanese took Kinhwa with the help of gas, and last week repeated the performance at Chuhsien, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa...
Opening blow was a tremendous shower of incendiaries: 40,000 thermite bombs from a single flight of bombers. Their white-hot showers reddened into smoky flames as they fired buildings. From then on, the other flights had a lighted target to shoot at. They squared away, dumped their sticks of demolition bombs, and ran for home...
High above him a bomber circled, while an observer took movies of one of the great naval battles of World War II. He caught the zigzag wakes of six warships, dodging a shower of bombs, the telltale circulars of two stricken aircraft carriers steaming out of control, the streaking course of bellowing dive-bombers blasting at stricken ships...
...uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture leering suggestively at Paulette's back and taking snapshots of it while she is in the shower. She alternately cowers and bristles at all this, but the end sees her foiling the heavies and winning her man. Happily, this, is accomplished with a minimum of seriousness, and the proceedings are frothy but funny...