Word: tubs
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...pilots a World War II minesweeper converted into a seagoing laboratory, also like Cousteau's. But it is no longer the famed Calypso. It is now called the Belafonte (a joke nod to the Caribbean crooner). And though the boat contains a sauna, a hot tub and a purloined cappuccino machine, its wiring goes on the fritz at awkward moments and its submersible has definitely seen better days...
Even with the high wages and low productivity, it was years before the bureaucratic inertia of “every tub on its own bottom”—University-speak for the decentralization of labor policies across departments and school—was overcome and labor policies were centralized, an essential first step to contracting out work...
...kindergarten, Lou Howe thought that Katie Kratovil was just fantastic, and he let her know—with frequent lollipops. One cold day in November, Katie approached Lou smiling sweetly. The moment had finally arrived. He puckered his lips expectantly—and then she poured a tub of glue on his innocent head...
...whereas Twain takes pop songs and countrifies them or vice versa, Nelly is an integrationist. His exuberant rolling delivery--he has never met a hard consonant--naturally places him between the commercial lodes of hard-core rap and sugary pop, while his lyrics invite everybody into the hot tub in the middle. His current single, My Place, sounds like a collaboration between Hall and Oates and Tupac...
...16th-century map of Spain floats in a tub of deionized water, while a damaged Russian poem is repaired nearby using starch paste and Japanese Tanguzo strips...