Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watch the Harvard-Yale baseball game. Secondly, in the middle of June these hearty alumni were subjected to near arctic weather that would have driven a sensible polar bear into hibernation. Third, Paul Del Rossi struck out seven in a row but nearly found himself en route to the shower room for wildness. The band was in tune...
Undaunted by a brief shower, 250 seniors in cap and gown had queued up in the far corner of the Yard and marched in formal procession to Memorial Church, doffing their hats in the traditional manner as they passed the statue of John Harvard...
...last week chanted prayers to the pulsating tick-tock of sticks beating on fish-shaped wooden blocks. Throngs of Chinese paraded through downtown streets carrying huge paper dragons representing the rain god, and the blare of drums, gongs and cymbals exhorted the heavens to send rain. When a brief shower dampened Hong Kong one afternoon, marking the first rainfall in six months, men and women clapped their hands and shouted...
...Indispensable Step." Many Latin American nations have not carried out the reforms that are to be their contribution to the Alliance, and the U.S. has not come through with the shower of wealth the Latin Americans hoped for. In a speech before the Economic Club of Chicago last week, David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, got down to the fundamental role of private enterprise in the Alliance. "It is true, of course," said Rockefeller, "that government can and should supply many of the facilities and services that are prerequisites to progress. I would not argue for a reduction...
...FAUCETS. With rare exceptions, bathroom faucets all used to turn one way-counterclockwise for on, clockwise off-something a man with soap in his eyes could rely on as he groped for the hot water faucet in the shower. Then the designers got the modern impulse to get symmetrical, and devised matching handles that turned in opposite directions, toward or away from each other. No one knows which way is which until he tries...