Word: towelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to see if women are embarrassed by their bodies, I told her. O, she said, turned, dropped her towel and began to wash her hair...
...shocking thing is that Agnew can defend himself so strongly for so long and then suddenly throw in the towel," Schneider said. "If he can switch gears so fast, the public can't believe anyone anymore...
...must create a mood, an ambience," says Hutton. Wrapped in a scruffy blue towel, preparing for a session, she takes extreme pains to transform her face with makeup-glopping a brownish base on her neck to create "shadows," penciling in an outline around the lips to make them look more even. To even out her jaw-the left side is minutely larger than the right-she adds bronze gel to one side...
Then General Carlos Prats González, commander in chief of the army, who was doubling as Minister of Defense, threw in the towel. He had been goaded by powerful factions in the army and air force-and their wives, who engaged in rock-throwing demonstrations outside his home. They contended that Prats was compromising the military's traditional neutralism and demanded that he leave the Cabinet. He acceded when the opposition majority in the Chamber of Deputies rammed through a resolution charging that the military members of the Cabinet were violating their oath to defend the constitution...
...thinking that I could lead her to him. I never understood this delusion of hers, but I'd drag her to parties anyway. And she would torture herself beforehand into the Look, a wasp-haired caricature, binding her curls tightly in a turban around her head, in a towel steamed for straightening. And she would chatter, and the pink would glow in her face. But then she would stand mum and prudish all night and hate herself in a corner. Afterwards, I'd try to comfort her, doing a stint of complaining myself to cheer her up. She never believed...