Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he took a shower and put on a pair of two-toned blue pajamas. He left the shower running. Carefully, he spread out three bath towels on the bathroom floor and lay down on them. Gripping the same .32 automatic with which he had shot Joseph Watkins, he put a bullet through his head, just forward of his right...
...Greensboro, his egg-spattered car was greeted with another shower of eggs and tomatoes. Some struck his head and shoulders, splotched his white shirt. Boos drowned out his attempt to speak. Cried Wallace: "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, because most of them have not had enough to eat." The crowd laughed...
...powdered and behatted, she briskly interrupted Chairman Sam Rayburn's introduction of Barkley, took over the microphone. On behalf of the Allied Florists of Philadelphia, she announced, she wanted to present President Truman with a large Liberty Bell made of flowers. Then, from beneath the bell came a shower of white pigeons (placed there by the florists' pressagent, who had billed them as "doves of peace...
...toward the pyramid in a dirty sweat suit. Not until he stepped down from the perch did the old Penn State star come to life. Then he danced a jig and sang: "Piccadilly Alley, here I come . . . La, la, la, la ... Come on, Dillard, let's take a shower. We're going to London...
...enormous speed and energy. They hit and apparently crack up atmospheric atoms, scattering the fragments violently, like bullets smashing into a bag of marbles. The atomic debris cascades toward the earth, some of the pieces with enough energy to crack atoms on their own. Occasionally one of these "extensive showers" covers an area 1,000 meters wide. The total energy in a shower runs up to 10 18 (one billion billion) electron-volts...