Word: towel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oarsman lowers at his reflection in the sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface of the water, and my palm, here, is the blade of the oar . . ." The boyish enthusiasm over crew and Bert Haines among...
...strike's third day, the nonstriking teachers threw in the towel. "We do not feel justified," they told Superintendent Bapst, "in accepting the taxpayers' money. ... It is only wasted." Buffalo closed down the entire school system and notified the state government that "public education has collapsed...
...smiling, flashing-eyed Costa Rican youngster who knows where Heaven is. It is, he is sure, the U.S.- the place that sends shining Buicks and glistening DC-35 to his native San Jose. When he was 15, Victor Manuel packed up, wrapped a piece of soap and a towel in his other blue shirt, and started for Heaven. Last week he told his strange story...
...going to get licked," was Coach Gordon Smith's pitty forecast of his Tech Swimmers' efforts tonight, meeting Hall Ulen's outfit in the Indoor Athletic Pool at 8 o'clock. But casting nothing resembling a towel in his opposition's direction, he added that he was damned if he'd tip his cards the night before by releasing any indication of a lineup...
...shuffled through the mass of stripes and polka-dots hanging behind his closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased this into the left hand pocket of the coat with the mousy fur collar. "All set," said...