Word: showering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. As he stepped out of the Columbine III, the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette of microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming to have such a reception . . . It's really great...
...continually sighs to be in combat, fills the role of a young Mr. Chips; the crew's schoolboy pranks are only thinly disguised as adult antics. Even when the sailors, with binoculars glued to their eyes, are squirming with delight at the glimpse of a nurse taking a shower, it is merely boyish high spirits rather than voyeurism. Similarly, an unexpected shore leave on the island of Elysium has no more reality than the island's name: though the crew is alleged to have got drunk and disorderly, to have broken up a dinner-dance, disrobed...
...Among the more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews who died that year in Auschwitz' deadly shower rooms were 52 members of the family of Malchiel Greenwald. Malchiel himself managed to escape, found his way to Palestine, and cast his lot and his hopes for the future with the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the party that fought with the fiercest zeal against the British for Israel nationalism. But uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding...
...doors opened, flashbulbs flared and newsmen were toppled in the rush. Despite 40 hours without sleep. Reuther radiated his usual brisk, cold-shower glow. He praised Ford's plan for a modified G.A.W. and, after a night's sleep, tackled General Motors. Every day, flanked by U.A.W. Vice President John Livingston and Negotiator Irving Bluestone. Reuther marched into Detroit's G.M. building for bargaining sessions in the big fifth-floor conference room. Late each night they left again with no word of progress. G.M. Negotiator Louis Seaton, director of labor relations, printed and passed...
...Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A musical revue with Ethel Merman, Betty Grable, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Harry James, Jack Oakie, Tony Martin...