Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little baffling. Yet they appear everywhere, in all sorts of styles and at all sorts of places. Some hang from the shoulders like farmer's overalls; others hug the hips like an Italian gigolo, or stick to the thighs as if the wearer had just emerged from a shower. In denim and khaki, they go to student protests and love-ins; in lace, they go to dinner and the theater; in twill and flannel, they even go to the office...
There was one shower at the Pru, but I got to use it eventually. I went to get my food after dressing, but I just could not eat the stew. My stomach said no. I had about four glasses of milk, though. My mother would have been proud...
...only did the sturdy Irishman go without a trophy, he had to go without a shower since the host, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is lacking in this particular facility. In fact, plumbing is not an Eagle strongpoint--the number one toilet there was imperfect in that it did not flush. The bar, however, was exquisite...
...every recent attack on the capital-were moving out of their sanctuaries and toward Saigon. Did that mean the offensive was about to enter a new phase of heavy fighting? Intelligence experts could not be certain. Some captured evidence pointed strongly to just that-as did a fresh shower of rocket and artillery attacks at week's end. Other evidence showed that the Communists thought they were already in the attack phase; and to confuse the picture even further, one high-ranking prisoner insisted that the present offensive is not phased at all and will last into the summer...
...children (soon there will be seven), Russell makes his living as a research chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Philadelphia. Until he started lessons at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School at the age of 26, he had done most of his singing in church choirs and shower -stalls. Instead of a Wagnerian selection, he sang an aria from Verdi's Otello, impressing the judges with his brooding intensity and naturally rich, dark-timbred voice. A good thing, too, because Otello "is the only role I really know...