Word: showering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were brought together. After they had carried off the titles of London's Queen's Tournament two years ago, he suggested: "Would you like to wait for me because I'd like to have dinner with you?" Then, he added, "I took my normal 50-minute shower." Now they plan to be married in November, and Chrissie will retire when the children come along. Jimmy lets Chrissie take questions on the timing, however, saying, "Answer that, Mother...
...dinnertime, Jackson picks up a second wind at home with a shower and a few minutes in the living room grooving to a pulsating rock number like For the Love of Money recorded by the O'Jays ("Music is a psychiatrist for me. When I turn up the volume, I escape into a peaceful inner world. I split from reality"). This particular evening he heads toward the exclusive Silverado Country Club in Napa to address a group of automobile dealers, one of whom lends Jackson a new Pontiac Grand Prix every year. As Jackson swings his car past...
...only 150 cabins available. Most of the Elizabethans had to sleep on chairs or the deck. Again, free drinks -this time with ice-and hot food helped soothe rising tempers. Landed after 15 hours in Hamilton, Bermuda, the Q.E. 2 passengers were given hotel rooms where they could shower for the first time in three days. Then, after being ceremoniously presented with complete refunds for their fares (up to $1,000), they were bundled aboard chartered jets for the 90-minute flight back to New York City...
...PEOPLE tried to rationally explain Harvard, a new dean of the Faculty warned in 1963, it "would come down in a shower of blood." But the events of the next five years--especially the rising tides of the civil rights movement and American involvement in Indochina--induced increasing numbers of students to disregard Franklin L. Ford's warning and try to make sense out of Harvard anyway. To some of them, Harvard made considerable sense--but not so much for its service to education or truth. Harvard, they felt, was training students to accept and eventually help run a system...
...Johnson. There is the "definitive" biography, which leaves the reader on a first-name basis with the subject, weeping at his funeral. And there is the "picayune" biography, which leaves the reader with so many personal, intimate but unnecessary and non-integrated facts that he feels like taking a shower. Often, the picayune biography is an "authorized" work, written by a worshipping professor after the death of a great writer. Lytton Strachey anticipated Blotner's contribution to this genre more than fifty years ago when he remarked on "those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate...