Word: showering
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Humans adapt to the most difficult circumstances. Strangely, I began to look forward to my solitary dining. At Harvard, people are in your face 24 hours a day--in the morning when mysterious singing would drift through the ventilation system into the shower, during section and then again at 3 a.m. when one's roommates host a party. I needed space to think; in the Union, everyone left me alone...
...precisely 1:25 p.m. on Hayes Street near Franklin in San Francisco, Mary Lou Breslin's motorized wheelchair spat out a shower of sparks and died. Breslin, 50, disabled by polio since childhood, had been shopping with her friend, Kathy Martinez, 36, who is blind. "I haven't been dead in the water for years," Breslin muttered angrily. With that, she and Martinez began to "strategize," their term for improvising in the face of emergencies. As able-bodied pedestrians moved past in a hurried blur, Breslin pulled out her cellular phone and started making calls...
Thimblerigger, played by Julie A. Terrell, is the next character to electrify the stage. As the reincarnation of Mum's lust and anger, she is so dynamic one expect a shower of sparks every time her whip lashes out or she stops just short of trampling a monkey. Her boldness and sharpness are terrific...
...sharpening my pencil, and I studied for exams the morning before, all of which made the transition to Harvard bumpy at first, But good Study habits are retrievable, I found, even if they are shocked into reuse. It was more the social scene that seemed like a cold shower: my new classmates didn't seem to have time simply tohang...
Peter Bochnak of Harvard's Environmental Healthand Safety Department said the pair had beenfollowing all correct safety procedures, includingusing gloves, goggles and a fume hood. The burnedstudent immediately used a safety shower, whichcaused some flooding in the building...