Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gimbel on the foot. "If that had been my head, I would have been killed," he said. "Opera is too dangerous." Instead he settled for gin rummy, frequent trips to nearby race tracks with such intimates as Toymaker Louis Marx, and daily sessions at the Biltmore Hotel steam baths, where Gimbel, even as a septuagenarian, impressed friends by swimming the 35-ft. length of the pool underwater...
...Chaplin's The Kid. By the time she was 16, Charlie had changed her name to Lita Grey, cast her as the leading lady in The Gold Rush, and was making love to her on the beach, in the back seat of his Locomobile, and in the. steam room of his Beverly Hills mansion...
...whether it be the "entrenched downtown interests" in Los Angeles or the Kennedys-and no one has ever battled with him and come away unscathed. Back home in Los Angeles, Yorty called a press conference. Smiling as if he had just come from a health resort instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap" set by Bobby Kennedy as part of his "lavish campaign to build himself up and tear President Johnson down. He's trying to ride on his brother's fame and his father...
...this noise about noise seems unnecessarily shrill, considering how much mankind loves the stuff. Italians put Alfa-Romeo horns on Fiats, and sometimes honk until the battery goes dead. Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and quiet; one need only sample the nonstop bell ringing, banging and conversational yelling that still goes on from dawn to dark in any little Spanish fishing village. Men make noise as a way of showing their vitality, and they welcome the noises others make as tokens against loneliness...
...initial 4,000 U.S. troops in the Delta, and the total could rise far above that. Most of the troops will probably be from the Army, though the Marines have long chafed to get into the Delta action. In any case, the campaign will be no picnic. A steam-hot, table-flat expanse of mangrove swamps and paddy-fields often standing in water up to a man's neck, the Delta is rife with an estimated 80,000 veteran Viet Cong guerrillas...