Word: tub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats them on straight-backed chairs for briefings, usually by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and one or two other Cabinet members. Some Congressmen feel that this part of the evening is a treatment, not a treat. "It mostly sounded to me like a political tub thumping," groused Kansas Republican William Avery. Still, most of them can hardly help feeling flattered when the President trots out top Cabinet officers for their edification...
...Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell in his bathroom, while trying to fix a loose cabinet, and struck the back of his head on the tub...
...more appropriate that we direct such energy as we have towards an explanation to the Harvard community of the conservative view point, rather than engaging in any-flag waving or tub thumping on behalf of the candidate," H. Woodruff Turner 3L, the chairman of the group, told 25 participants...
Plumbing fixtures, like everything else, are increasingly decked in "decorator colors"-the most popular, predictable pink. Second most popular is light brown. Floors may be vinyl or ceramic tile, walls may be the latest Italian mosaic, but the commonest materials for wash basin, toilet and tub are old-fashioned vitreous china and enameled metals. The w.c. of tradition is one of the last holdouts against the Plastic...
...month, is much the same as what happens in the seal, though less pronounced. The human volunteer who holds his breath while his mouth is under water reacts in much the same way as a seal trained to perform a symbolic dive by keeping its snout submerged in a tub. In both, the heartbeat is slowed. More significant, the flow of blood through flippers or feet is sharply reduced. So is the flow of blood through intestines and kidneys-everywhere except in the brain, lungs and heart. Even in active swimming, the extremities can get along for a while...