Word: towelled
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...Crimson harriers have been setting their sights high throughout their undefeated season and were somewhat disappointed with their performance. But Hardin made no excuses for his showing or for the team's as he sat in his Winthrop House room last night, his shinsplints wrapped in a towel and cotton swabs easing his blistered feet...
...disguises." Frequently this only means that he wheels and deals quietly and privately in order to get something for the neighborhood. When he wanted to construct a playground where the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority said that it couldn't be built, he went to the President of the Standard Towel and Tissue Company and offered to name the back yard of his own company after the President if he would allow the children to use it as a play area. He created a little more building space in the area by convincing two companies to re-locate...
...self-pity and dread to time's metronome ticking away with deadly austerity. Paul Scofield profiles Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line out at arm's length between a fastidious thumb and forefinger...
Emerging drenched to the quills, Ibis asked for a towel. "It's not a duck's back, you know," he quipped...
...from 1949 to 1962, remembered for a paralyzing strike during the Korean War; in Minneapolis. "We've won a tremendous victory," crowed Kennedy, whose call for a national strike in 1950 prompted the Government to take over the roads. Finally, in May 1951, the railroads threw in the towel, signed a contract giving Kennedy's men a $97 million-a-year wage increase...