Word: towel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orgies; in the '30s, Norma Shearer in the sheerest of slips was enough to make temperatures simmer. World War II G.I.s strained at the sight of Lana Turner in a sweater. Then came Marilyn Monroe's enamel-textured calendar shot and Brigitte Bardict's nudity-with-towel, and most barriers were down...
...sing. What comes jetting down upon him, however, is not water but streams of deadly gas. He tries to turn it off. Impossible. He tries the door. It is locked and batterproof. It appears that he will surely die. But he quickly wraps a shaving-cream bomb in a towel, wedges it against the door, sprinkles it with after-shave lotion, and touches the flame of a cigarette lighter to this ingenious subnuclear device. The blazing lotion heats the shaving cream until it explodes volcanically, and Napoleon Solo-the man in the shower-staggers out into his hotel room...
...Towel-whipping and other vulgar abnormal sexual expressions are carried on. Of course, the Harvard Crimson denies all this in a namby-pamby whitewashing of the facts. Lacking as it does an editorial maturity that is surprising before the factual evidence of the college's own watchful guardians...
According to the Associated Press, a housemaid discovered Williams' body when she went to make up his room. She reported finding a towel draped over his face and more towels stuffed against the base of the door. The windows were closed. A coroner's inquest is expected to be held next week...
...Harvard hasn't thrown in the towel yet. Last year at this time the powerful Crimson travelled to Providence expecting an easy win to mark the beginning of the road to the Ivy crown. Instead, Brown overcame a 2-0 deficit late in the third quarter, and pulled out a 3-2 overtime...