Word: tub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inwagen said of the second letter, "One could no more reply to it than one could reply to a Hitler speech or a tub-thumping backwoods revivalist sermon...
...defense, it can only be said that his invective was impartial and bipartisan. He accused Harry Truman of putting on "one of the cheapest exhibitions of ham acting I have ever seen." He said that Lyndon Johnson was "drunk with power." The corpulent G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart was a "tub of rancid ignorance...
...will be participating in a series of meetings starting this summer to discuss the merger renewal. "There's a wide range of possibilities," she says. "We could dissolve the Radcliffe board of trustees in exchange for places on the Corporation (now all male). Or we could make Radcliffe a tub within Harvard University. Or we could merge some areas and not others, or work together cooperatively. But I hope after a serious review that we should have the strength of character to dissolve ourselves if that's the best way or, of course, not to if that's best...
...true that paying bookbinders decent wages means raising tuition. Harvard works on an every-tub-on-its-own-bottom system, under which each department--including the printing office--is self-supporting. But a broader argument--that increasing the wages of campus workers as a group will mean increasing student fees--deserves a more general reply...
...fashionable then to hang paintings in a nobleman's elaborate salle de bain. This was a salon, often very elegantly furnished with rugs, tapestries and paintings, to which the nobleman's valet brought a tub of hot water...