Word: towelled
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...importer of bamboo magazine racks has recently doubled the price to $8. The prices are discouraging many potential buyers and Mrs. Edlund has fired her only salesgirl. Though her husband, a lawyer, "suggests every morning that I sell the store," she has no plans for throwing in the towel. "People say that if you leave your heart in San Francisco, you leave it on Union Street," she says wistfully. "Maybe they leave their hearts, but not cold cash...
...weeks now commentators of every political stripe have been waxing philosophical about the lessons of Watergate. After Nixon threw in the towel last Thursday, pundits and professional politicians all agreed that the resignation was the ultimate proof of one lesson more than any other: The System Works...
...huskily. With an emphatic toss of her head, Bell shakes out a jungle of tangled curls, bawling lustily, "I know you send your regards to the queen of the night." As the final notes drown in a roar of noisy affirmation, she mops her streaming face with a Turkish towel...
...that Brecht wanted shouted like newspaper headlines. Subtlety--never the strongest point of a Brecht play--is thereby eliminated. Brecht added the boxing and wrestling allusions to strengthen the play five years after he wrote it but, spoken inside a boxing ring, revisions like "Chicago has thrown in the towel for him" become so self-conscious that they undermine the theme of the play...
...alongside a life-size poster advertising the entertainer's two-week Manhattan engagement. But Joel's wife Jo was unfazed. "Why don't you take the picture now?" she suggested. So the camera clicked and Sharp Dresser Joel was caught for posterity wearing only a bath towel...