Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shower was two flights down, but at Paris' Hotel des Deux Continents last summer I first met my European wife. How did I find hotel and bride? Guided by Arthur Frommer's book! Even those who can afford Europe on $10 or $20 a day shouldn't travel without the Frommer. Fielding is for people over...
...Security Area at Panmunjom. At 5:30 a.m., a Jeep bounced along the rutted road carrying three U.S. enlisted men of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, bound for an observation point on a nearby hill. They never made it. The North Koreans blasted the Jeep from the road with a shower of grenades. Pfc Charles Dessart, 19, of Drexel Hill, Pa., and Private David Seiler, 24, of Theresa, Wis., were killed; Pfc William Foster, 26, of Baltimore was badly wounded...
...Frommer ground rules are spartan. Though $5 a day covers a room and three meals, exclusive of transportation costs, a frugal tourist is reminded: 1) "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room. Few Europeans regard a bath or shower as a daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while...
Partch's galloping whimsy-the very thing that has made him an admirably tireless pioneer-has also kept him a hopeless, penniless outsider all his life He conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer...
Dean Ford likened the University to the pre-1789 French monarchy, maintaining it is "irrational, frequently unjust, tradition-bound, and culturally distinctive." If we tried to make sense out of it, it "would come down in a shower of blood," he concluded. It is in a state of balance in which all parts are kept going in "the compromising process of institutional life...