Word: showering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shower of debris on Jupiter, which ended at 4 p.m. EDT, prompted Net bombardment on Earth. The sites providing spectacular images of the actual collisions were some of the most popular. The Internet address at the National Space Science Data Center, for example, was hit with 5,400 accesses an hour during its peak period. Now that the Jupiter light show is history, the most trafficked locations are a lot less jammed. Reach the National Space Science Data Center at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/sl9/comet_images.html.
Fragment Q1 of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet hurtled into Jupiter late this afternoon, and two more pieces are expected to bombard the same spot on the planet shortly. The upcoming shower follows two smaller impacts earlier today. Q1, R and S are only slightly smaller than the largest fragment, G, which hit Monday and caused the highly visible "black eye" of Jupiter...
...long before Southern California's chill and brooding morning fog begins to lift, a deputy sheriff unbolts the face-high shutter in the solid steel door of the cell and calls to prisoner 4013970. O.J. Simpson arises and is led across the hall for his daily shower. Returning to his cell, he shaves at the stainless-steel sink. A heated kitchen cart is wheeled down the corridor, and through a slot in the door Simpson is handed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, potatoes, two slices of wheat bread and coffee brewed in a stainless-steel kitchen vat so wide...
...economic food chain -- mainly pensioners who brew "tea" with shredded carrots and can't remember the last time they bought a new scrap of clothing -- peddle their household goods to pay for tomorrow's potatoes. A short stroll from Moscow's Kiev train station, the sidewalks teem with faucets, shower fittings, cartons of milk, boxes of laundry powder, lamps, washbasins, doorknobs, frying pans, toothpaste, glue, string and old pairs of shoes...
...Nevertheless she can still sustain with silky ease a long-lined ballad like the album's dreamy title song or the touching finale, My Buddy. How has Horne kept her voice in such good shape? She laughs. "You mean through the postnasal drip? I don't sing in the shower, and I never vocalize -- it's too embarrassing. I only sing when I have to do a job. Then, to prepare, I go into the dining room and see how loud I can yell without pain...