Word: towel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teeing-Off Tips. The newspaper lessons peddled by the masters cover much that the duffer knows full well: "If it actually is raining," began one Palmer column, "rule No. 1 is to keep your equipment and your hands as dry as possible. A good idea is to carry a towel." Jack Nicklaus can also belabor the obvious: "Prior to driving, a golfer can save strokes merely by looking down the fairway...
...year will leave Harvard with no courses on the history or government of modern India. Earlier this year Rudolph explained that one reason he and his wife are leaving is that, whereas Chicago has the best South Asian program in the country, "Harvard has pretty much thrown in the towel in this field." And it certainly looks that...
...lovers meet in Istanbul. He wears a hand towel, and she is covered by his automatic. "You're beautiful," he mutters. "Some people think my mouth is too big," she pants in reply. "No," he assures her, "it's the right size-for me." Bang! A bomb explodes in the Russian consulate, and in the ensuing confusion Bond and his musky Russki escape with a cipher machine. But the end is not yet. In the next hour or so, 007 is slugged by a phony British agent, bombed by a passing helicopter, pursued by an avalanche of rats...
...there! Back! I saw you make a break for the door. Just wrap that towel around your shoulders a little better, keep moving and you'll keep warm...
...stunned and distressed by the turn of events. Its peacemaking committee formally tossed in the towel; only after some urging from the OAS Council did it decide to try, try again. At week's end, Johnson sent a mollifying statement to the OAS reiterating his determination to accept "any solution that is fair." If nothing comes of the gesture, the U.S. seems quite willing to wait until after Panama's May 10 elections, when passions and politics in the isthmus republic should be less heated...