Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrible; like Columbia it has had but one moment of glory, a victory over Colgate which had beaten Princeton. Harvard managed only a one touchdown win over Columbia and despite what the experts say, "Pusey" starts with an "8" and "Heffner" with a "4." Thus, says the IBM Shower-Stall I-22, Harvard 17, Brown...
...protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...
...railway employees raced to put out the fires, riot police assembled in the darkness down the tracks and charged. They were met but not stopped by a shower of rocks. The sound of staves flailing against police shields and batons banging on plastic helmets echoed through the train shed. Bodies rolled in hand-to-hand combat. The battered and bleeding were carted off by rescue squads of both sides...
...squashing a TV station. When a commercial is announced, a man ostensibly from Allstate Insurance will cup his hands around a tiny house, saying "You're in good hands with . . .," and drop the house with a great shattering crash. In other sequences, a girl steps out of the shower, answers the phone, hands it into the shower and says...
...logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened, then kept lathering away, sure the shell would not disrupt either him or the plumbing. Right enough. It landed 75 yards away...