Word: tub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuff. For ill or good, Hulme would not have exercised such a magnetic pull over friend and foe if his life had not been as unconventional as his mind. He rarely rose before noon, loved nothing better than to read Kant stretched out in a hot tub, and could not resist marching in Salvation Army parades. He argued that woman's place was in the home, but he was forever picking one up on the streets, and one memorably uncomfortable escapade took place on the steel staircase of the emergency exit at the Picadilly Circus tube station...
...near Istanbul where he is being held along with ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and 328 other Democrats on charges of treason or other misdeeds, Bayar finished breakfast, got permission to take a bath. The guard outside the door heard strangling noises, rushed in to find Bayar slumped in the tub, his belt cinched tight around his neck. The old man was revived. "I was not anxious to be saved," said Bayar wearily...
...success. He wrote speedily-his editors noted that his manuscripts were scarcely ever blotted-and turned out an average of two plays a year. Plots to Shakespeare were like pots to Merlin: any borrowed tub, from Holinshed's Chronicles to Plutarch's Lives, would do to mix the magic in. One of the intellectuals of the day, Robert Greene, addressing his university-trained colleagues, Nashe, Peele and Marlowe, sneered at the "upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." But Londoners worshiped...
King's work day begins with a deep-think session in a hot tub followed by ten hours at a hot desk. Nothing, apparently, can silence his own snare drums of opinion, or keep him from lapsing into double negatives when excited. Sample, on religion: "I think there is no religious revival at all. Fra Angelico kneeled to the Madonna because he was going to paint her, and she was his God. We don't kneel down to nothing any more, not even to a cash register...
...attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed in a duralumin basin that will be used again! At all previous imperial births, a tub made specially from fresh cypress wood was used, and it was afterwards buried deeply and secretly in the imperial compound...