Word: towel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. Private James Stanley and others stripped off their regimentals and jumped into Long Island Sound from the Fort coal dock. Half way over to Glen Island, Stanley's stomach was griped. He floundered. Ashore some sharp-eyes saw him, telephoned the Quartermaster for a launch, seized a towel, waved at a hovering seaplane...
...fourth hole when Mitchell hooked a drive. He won the fifth and sixth holes with faultless golf, the tenth with a birdie. After that he was never behind again. Mitchell, quite obviously, was stewing in his own juice. Perspiration poured into his eyes; he had his caddy fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might as well play without trousers, he kept his tweed jacket on. Hagen...
...riseth from supper and laid aside his garments; and took a towel and girded himself...
After that he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe (them) with the towel wherewith he was girded...
...first set. But a series of lucky placements by LaCoste, and the evident willingness of the Frenchman to spend all his reduced vitality in a desperate effort at the start, deprived him of the set, 6-4. LaCoste's eyelids, as he mopped his face with a towel, were heavier than ever. The next set would see a change of things. It did. Leaping, slamming, driving, smashing the dissipated Frenchman out-volleyed, outguessed, out-stroked Richards, took set and match with ease...