Word: towelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reassure the American public that there was no chance the U.S. would be dragged back into the war: Vietnam was lost. But Ford was in awe of Kissinger, and, says Robert Hartmann, chief White House speech writer, "Kissinger, for negotiating reasons, was not ready to throw in the towel." Hartmann persisted, telling Ford "nobody declared this war, but you can declare the end of it." He remembers that Ford's "brow furrowed and he said 'I'm not sure Henry would approve...
...early April two years ago, my future roommate darted into my room, bath towel wrapped around her hair, envelope in hand. "You'll never believe what they did to us," she screamed. My heart sank. "We got quadded," I said, thinking to myself that it wasn't too bad--living in 29 Garden St., we had already spent our first year quadded and had a great time. "No, it's even worse than the quad," she answered, sitting down in the floor. That took me completely by surprise; I didn't know there could be something worse than the quad...
Upon arriving at Harvard, Starkey was dismayed to discover that not everyone shared a similar nonchalance Puritanical. I walk from the shower to my dorm room in my towel. She changes in the shower...
...never been to the Swap Shop. One night six weeks before her "disappearance," police affidavits report, John had beaten her on the body and face as her mother watched. John later added that Pauline joined in the beating. When Christina started screaming, he stopped her mouth with a towel. When she choked and went into seizures, he says, he tried to perform CPR, unsuccessfully. The couple kept her corpse in a closet for four days. Last Friday, just 17 hours after South Carolina police shocked the nation with the announcement that they were taking Susan Smith in for murdering...
...think that last week's comeback victory over Columbia sounded an end to those late-game blues, they are wrong. No team ever gives up the first game. It's only after utter defeat, after a team painfully realizes its limitations, that it is tempted to throw in the towel and call it a season. That time is now--the vultures are circling...