Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body's capillaries, brought on by a combination of factors such as exposure, overeating, oversleeping, alcohol, viruses, dust, frustration. Thus the typical candidate for a common cold is a man who on Saturday night ate a big dinner, followed by several alcoholic drinks, then took a hot shower, overslept in the morning, and got into an argument with his wife about cleaning out a dusty closet...
...social worker; in Miami it is 40. In some instances, foster parents turn out to be no better than some parents for whom they substitute. Only two months ago the Los Angeles foster parents of a five-year-old girl "punished" her by tying her to the bathroom shower fixtures with a length of TV antenna wire; she was dead of strangulation a few hours later...
...generally blame for rainfall. They appear too irregularly, and they never affect the whole earth in the same way at the same time. Bowen was more intrigued by the streams of meteors that the earth passes through on regular schedule. When he looked up the dates of known meteor showers, he found that they seemed to precede every peak of heavy rainfall on his charts. The prominent rain peak on Jan. 12 came 30 days after the Geminid meteor shower of Dec. 13. Other rain peaks came at about the same interval after other meteor showers. The explanation, said Bowen...
...Cold-Shower Glow. General Motors gave Reuther pretty much the same beribboned package that he got two weeks earlier at American Motors Corp.-but without profit sharing. One reason for G.M.'s sudden retreat was that it wants nothing to block what it hopefully expects to be a banner selling year. Said American Motors Vice President Ed Cushman: "You should have seen Walter's eyes light up like a pinball machine when two G.M. vice presidents predicted a 7,250,000-car year for 1962. Walter knew he had power there...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side, where a man had been reported roaming the streets with a rifle, a pair of New York cops last week began questioning a teen-age tough-and found themselves threatened by riot. A hostile crowd of some 200 persons milled around, a shower of bricks and other debris hurtled down from tenement rooftops. One brick, aimed at the policemen, struck and killed a bystander, Factory Worker Ramon Rojas...