Word: showering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest hit was the biggest boat, the 53-ft. Wheeler cruiser with twin 285-h.p. diesels, wall-to-wall carpeting, two bathrooms, a stall shower, electric galley, and private staterooms for ten. Price: $110,000. The most versatile: Neptuna's $4,400 Sportsman, a new amphibious auto trailer with retractable wheels that sleeps four on land or sea. The fastest: Bellingham Shipyards' 100-m.p.h. Bikini with hydroplane fiber-glass hull, twin inboard engines firing at 430 h.p., and a price...
...sixth floor houses four squash courts, a tennis and squash supply shop, lockers, a television room, dressing rooms for commuters, and shower rooms. The other two squash courts are on the seventh floor along with the gymnasium, steam room, masseur, and 12-bed dormitory, used when the bedrooms are filled...
...press had played up as second Stalingraders fired their rifles in the air. Then they rushed to pull down the 57-ft. statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, French-born father of the Suez Canal. With police cordoning the crowd, three successive charges of dynamite toppled the statue in a shower of bronze splinters. Boys fired at the great figure as it fell, then trampled the wreckage, shouting: "Down with Britain and France...
...bring it into being. Protected from the slow ravages of compromise-either with public taste or with his own immaturity-he developed his style invisibly along with his character. At last he produced some etchings that had a wholly new quality, the quality of himself. There followed a hesitant shower of equally exciting watercolors. and finally more oils. In 1924 he had his first one-man show of new work, which sold out. He married a painter named Josephine Nivison (who had also studied with Henri), shook the dust of commercial illustrations from his heels and began...
...someone just like him, is now roving through television as vice president in charge of promoting annual, trumped-up presentations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. For the first of this season's versions, televised last week, the VP persuaded CBS and Chrysler's Shower of Stars to turn the durable old holiday cliche into elaborate but dismal humbug...