Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along the ten-mile route into San Juan, 200,000 lined the streets to cheer, toss streamers and shower confetti. Proclaimed the banners: "Welcome, Uncle Kennedy...
Tshombe left his pink and white stucco residence to tour the shattered wards of Prince Leopold Hospital, stopping to offer sympathy and thanks to the wounded. Said he: "Your wounds are not in vain." Then he made his last-ditch tom-tom appeal to his warriors: "Poisoned arrows will shower on our opponents; each onusien [U.N. soldier] will be a corpse...
...MEMORIES & NIGHTS. As the calendar tolls off the last shopping days before Christmas, the real Christmas begins once more. In the Old Mexico district of Los Angeles, the fiesta will start and shattering piñatas will shower candy on shrieking children. The inevitable office party, despite reassurances of reformed dignity, will end when an overspirited employee tells off the boss-but not before someone has kissed the stenographer. In Yellow Springs, Ohio (pop. 4,167), the mayor and an aide will distribute 10 lbs. of flour and sugar each to every "worthy widow" in honor of ex-Slave Wheeling...
...brought new life to bel canto. Says she, in her breezy Australian style: "I love all those demented old dames of the old operas." The attraction is understandable, for Sutherland has just the voice to do the old dames justice. Crystalline, open-throated, reflex-quick, her voice can shower feathery trills on an audience or take perilous leaps with agility and astonishing accuracy. It can trace graceful arabesques of passion or float from note to note with liquid ease. Most remarkable, it does not thin out, as do most coloratura voices, into shrill parody in the upper register. Indeed, Sutherland...
...occupancy while the car is in motion). Dodge division of Chrysler Corp. has produced the "Motor Home," which looks like something between a Greyhound bus and an oversized Volkswagen truck, makes the trailer an integral part of the car, and permits a trailer wife to cook breakfast, take a shower, or snooze, while her helpmate reels off the miles...