Word: showers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know who'll let you shower with them until a time of crisis," one Winthrop resident said yesterday...
...planned to see the place in action, bustling with down vests and hockey sticks and sparkling in a December snow shower. The fires would be dancing in gloomy libraries, where weathered sages gathered to discuss Tennyson and sip sherry. Upstairs the husky captains of the guys' and girls' swimming teams would be making love frantically, faintly worrying about how to explain their absence to the coach. In front of the headmaster's residence two little children, a boy and girl indistinguishable from each other in their cordurov overalls and knit hats, would romp with an aging golden retriever named Mayflower...
...Saturn launch's g forces. Eight and a half minutes after the spacecraft had left the launch pad, its engines had swallowed up more than half a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Columbia fired explosive charges to spin off its main tank, which disintegrated in a shower of fragments over the Indian Ocean, only ten miles off course, although at a higher altitude than expected. Then Columbia switched to its smaller, orbital maneuvering engines and fired a series of bursts that carried it into orbit...
...shower heads were installed throughout the college. Were you consulted? Granted, this is a small issue, but it reflects a fundamental problem in the current relationship between Harvard undergraduates and the administration. Tuition is spiraling upward and services are being cut back, yet students have little to say in any matter--be it calendar reforms, investment policy, or library hours. Moreover, students as individuals do not have or the power to guard their interests. Therefore, at this time, we need an effective student government, funded and centralized, to act as our advocate, rather than the present fragmented and penniless system...
...breathing heavily now, and the sweat has soaked your jersey. Your legs feel a rush of blood and satisfying pain as you turn for the return race. You race, switch oarsmen, turn around--ten races in all, and you head home, panting, tired and exhilirated. A hot shower is all you ask, and you dress slowly to accommodate sore muscles and tired eyes...