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Word: soaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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bright, luminous point of consciousness, radiating light, warmth and knowledge." "Wow!" as a young New York woman wrote in the logbook after a $15, one-hour soak at Manhattan's Tranquility Tanks. "Orgasmic!" said another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nirvana in a Dank, Dark Tank | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

Medical verdicts on tank therapy range from harmless to beneficial. Some physicians say that a long, hot soak in an old-fashioned tub at home can be as salutary-and solitary. But who needs hot water for meditation? Said Henry David Thoreau, the master solitudinist: "A man thinking or working is always alone, le him be where he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nirvana in a Dank, Dark Tank | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...factory tours shakes he wants to avoid the long hikes on hard floors. When he shakes hands with large groups of voters, he props himself against a table or folding chair held by a Secret Service agent. Rest periods are programmed into each day, so that he can go soak for an hour in a hot bath. The pain is aggravated by rides in bouncing buses and by nights in the soft, sometimes sagging beds of supporters' homes. Kennedy takes along a bed board, which helps, but whenever possible, he sleeps on the firm and familiar mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ted's Aching Back | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Solid Gold Tub | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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