Word: soaping
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After unwinding with green tea in your tatami-mat room, change into a yukata and head to the baths. Before you cannonball in, though, take your washcloth to the showers, soap up and shampoo. Only when squeaky clean should you hit the baths. The indoor one is nice, but the true gem is the rotenburo (outdoor bath). The stone-ringed pool overlooks the river, with your privacy protected by rhododendron and cedars...
...Western media hit Russia by storm after Gorbachev opened the borders with his radical policy of “Glasnost,” or openness, in the mid 1980s. Russians were besieged by Western television, film and fashion. Now, women watch Brazilian soap operas and aspire to dress like Julia Roberts and Giselle. The Western media even seems to have made Russia’s holy babushka (grandmother) an anachronism here...
After a drawn out soap opera in which his students begged him to stay and Shinagel apologized publicly and profusely, Briss just yesterday announced that he would be moving to another university where he would be able to act as inappropriately as he pleased all the time, or, as he put it, where he would be “appreciated and respected.” Dean Shinagel, he remarked in an interview broadcast nationally, is the “Saddam Hussein of continuing education.” Asked to explain, Briss continued, “I realize that the analogy...
...while waiting in line to buy soap at a grocery store that Newdow, a lifelong atheist born in the Bronx, began his linguistic crusade. Noticing that all his coins and notes had "in God we Trust" written on them, he decided to use his University of Michigan legal training to sue the government for removal of the phrase. After a bit of research, Newdow decided it would be easier to protest the pledge of allegiance by claiming he didn?t want his daughter to say "under God," even though she wasn?t in school at the time. He lost while...
...don’t sell anything here you could buy at CVS,” she says. “We don’t sell Ivory soap. We could be giving it away, nobody would take it here...