Word: splash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better hygiene, he advocates washing jets fore and aft. The seat itself would be wider, padded, and come with built-in push-up bars, paper holder and electric flush controls. And while on the subject, Kira thinks that the urinal could stand more study. Working with everything from splash diagrams to trajectory charts, the study group proposes a cavern-shaped urinal, suggests that it might pull down from the wall above...
Sinks, it appears, are too small and too low. They should be higher and wider. Present faucets should be replaced by a recessed fountain-type water source. The bowl should have a splash lip at the front and be contoured to set up a swirling, self-cleaning water action...
Other members of the force de tour are the uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am and TWA, a surprisingly uninformative series by Holiday, a Rand McNally pocket guide. But the one that is making the biggest current splash is a brightly covered paperback called Europe on $5 a Day. Written by Manhattan Attorney Arthur Frommer, its cardinal rule is "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room"-a stricture that has sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses...
...trilogy took Waugh at least ten years to complete, not principally for literary reasons. After 1948 and the splash success of The Loved One, his travesty on the California way of death, he progressively withdrew from the 20th century. Surrounded by six children, whom he saw only once a day "for ten, I hope awe-inspiring minutes," he lived in an 18th century country house 140 miles from London, where tie played the rural squire with a conservatism that soon became simply amniotic. He refused to drive a car, rarely answered the phone, harrumphed indignantly that the Times of London...
...last laugh, however, seems to belong to Braniff President Harding Lawrence, 45, who took over the airline a year ago last week and is responsible for the color splash. Braniff is getting more attention than other airlines, and operating statistics show it. Passengers increased 18% last year to 3,370,000; revenues also rose 18%, to $129 million, and earnings were up 58% to $9,400,000. Within the year, Braniff stock rose from $25 to $125, and stockholders last week happily approved a two for one split...