Word: showering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that reason, cases like Joe Payne's will probably become more common. Originally incarcerated for killing a store clerk, he claims to have been in the shower when Dunford was killed. Several eyewitnesses have since supported his claim and fingered one Robert Smith as the killer. The reason they didn't speak up at his trial, they later said, was that they figured that the worst that could befall Payne was a second life sentence. "[It seemed like] a white guy's problem," Eddie Phillips, who is black, later said. But when Payne got death, "to me it became...
...details that McCorkle accumulated through the last five years led to the interesting history of her colorful characters. McCorkle writes down all her ideas as they materialize in her head, leaving notebooks in every possible location (including one hanging outside her shower.) She called her collection of notes a Pandora's box, and claimed that "most of the stuff for Carolina Moon was already there." One of the characters, McCorkle explained, owned property given to him by his father which is currently under water due to Hurricane Hazel. This reflected a similar story McCorkle heard her own father discussing when...
...List was on an entirely different plateau. It was divided into 13 lucky subsections: clothing, shower gear, laundry paraphanalia, medical supplies, linens, for the desk, for studying, for maintenance, appliances, for the wall, for storage, food stuffs and, finally, the ever ambiguous etc. The List pretty much instructed us to pack the entire contents of our home and that of the closest neighbor. Families in town began designating entire rooms, entire wings to hold the extravaganza of supplies needed to insure a safe passage from home to the wild college scene...
...morning they strap the baby into the high chair with a handful of Cheerios on the tray, then stay alert for the sound of his choking while they take a two-minute shower. They consider a week at their in-laws' a vacation and joke that they live at the Target store. They drive a big car not because they haul a lot of lumber but because it gives them a fleeting sense of control. Everything changes when they become parents--when life gets both richer and harder, and everything becomes a trade-off, and the self is no longer...
...Russian station is a cluster of six cramped, camper-size pods, with most of the living space devoted to labs. Personnel sleep in curtained, closet-like enclosures at the end of one pod and exercise with their bodies bungeed into place on treadmills; when it comes time for a shower, they must get by with space shampoo and a tepid sponge bath. ("NASA has promised to hose her down before they give her back," quips husband Michael Lucid...