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Word: towel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics of joy. "Happiness is contagious, just exactly like being miserable. People have to believe that they can do better. They've got to know that there's somebody that wants to help and work with them, somebody that hasn't tossed in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Hemming, Hawing or Quitting | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which the way a towel's folds are echoed by the edge of a bowl and the curved iron brace of a washstand acquires an importance verging on the moral. Balthus' world is whole, and everything in it, one is persuaded, is riveted there by prolonged thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Nymphets of Balthus | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...proposal to raise to 70 the age at which a person can get a maximum Social Security check was made by the desk set, whose hardest job is making it to the water cooler and back to their desks. They can "work" until 98 before throwing in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1977 | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...bursar's cards is a major league pain in the keister (especially when your sweatpants have no pockets) and could be easily alleviated by having a student directory at the monitor's cage. Since the monitors aren't doing anything constructive with their time now since the Harvard White Towel Embargo, they could use the same procedure as the libraries use when someone forgets his or her card...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: McCall in a Day's Work | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

...speaking of linen, Kevin McCall, director of facilities for the Department of Athletics, says that the Department will resume free towel service in the IAB as soon as possible. Why did he discontinue the service in the first place? So he could put Jack Reardon's monogram on each...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: McCall in a Day's Work | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

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