Word: showers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the batterings of Selma and Viet Nam, several assassinations and summers of psychedelic overload, the country needed a warm bath and a bit of soothing. What it got instead was a fresh, hard needlepoint shower from the ranks?indeed, from the home. It was a little too much. Doors slammed, windows rattled shut. The national circuits had temporarily shorted out, and, in the prevailing gloom, the feminist torches looked less like beacons than
...Calvinistic Edinburgh the Pope also doused protesters with a shower of papal blessings. A band of young extremists who hurled eggs at the Popemobile (none hit their mark) were quickly hustled away by police. In Glasgow a paltry 100 militant Protestants paraded in protest near by while the Pope led the main worship. At every protest demonstration, he seemed unfazed-and unmoved...
...Chinatown, and parked in the Combat Zone at 4 a.m. I was too drunk to move, so I spent an hour in the back seat of the car. I remember being taken home, and helped up the E-entry steps. Miraculously, I woke up at 10, took a shower, and went to church. I was still drunk. It wasn't until the middle of the sermon that I sobered up...I was able to control myself; I wasn't wobbling. It's just like the buzz any priest would have if he chugged a glass of communion wine...
...practiced over and over again until you had nightmares about it. There is no time to think, no time for anything. A split second freezes until you pull out and up into the high blue. When you land you are drenched with sweat like you've been in a shower. Your legs won't stop shaking...
...keep up suspense and excitement and to encourage more people to attend, the names of the bride and groom were not announced before the ceremony. Only after the stag party and bridal shower did the organizers of the $240 gals inform the bride and groom privately of their respective roles. The Stanford Daily reported recently...