Word: towel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wakes up when the other comes home, gets a phone call, or has to go to the bathroom. Worse, in dorms like old Leverett the bathroom can only be reached through one of the inner bedrooms. These former friends spend the year wiping their hands on each other's towel, debating whose turn it is to empty the trash, and having to trade rooms each time one of them wants to spend the night alone with a visitor. What happens when both of them want an overnight visitor on the same night?...Have you heard the stories about the "floater...
Harvard admits 1478 men and two women to the Class of 1980. "They wanted equal access and we gave it to 'em," chortles Jack Reardon '60, director of Admissions as he dresses for a squash game with L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions. "Yeah," says Jewett, snapping a towel at Reardon, "look at it this way: Radcliffe's loss is Pine Manor's gain, if you know what I mean...
...thought was just "another sewer pipe." Then the detector sounded off for another hit. More knife digging, and Leventhal was suddenly staring at what seemed to be curls on the back of a bronze head. He dug out the head, wrapped it in two T shirts and a towel, and went back to the kibbutz, where it was put on display in the dining hall...
...port, looking for Soviet cigarette butts. The Russians at Berbera, of whom there may be as many as 1,000, were obviously under instructions to keep out of sight during the Americans' visit. One Russian at what was apparently a radio tower hid his head in a towel when he spotted an American staring at him. One of the Senator's aides opened the door of a housing trailer and found six startled Russians inside. More to the point, a gray crate that bore Cyrillic letters was identified by a Russian-speaking U.S. technician as "having...
...stayed at the top ever since. With 80 boutiques round the world selling men's and women's clothing and a wide range of accessories, Saint Laurent rings up sales of $8 million in women's ready-to-wear alone. He has dabbled in towel and sheet designs because they "are like designing scarves," but, unlike Cardin, has declined to venture farther afield of fashion...