Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, freshmen will be allowed to pick up the portable vacuum cleaners the service had used, and clean their rooms themselves...
Student porters will vacuum undergraduate rooms only on alternate weeks this year, instead of each week as in the past. Bathroom cleaning, however, remains a weekly service...
Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...
...Mitzi or Erika a bubble bath. From Kiel to Koblenz each Saturday afternoon, the streets are filled with men carrying sudsy plastic pails and chamois. Floor mats and cushions-many of them hand-embroidered by the car owner's routine wife-are assiduously cleaned, often by tiny, transistorized vacuum cleaners. A recent survey showed that 60% of all German males wash their own cars, 57% every week...
...While conducting tours at the space center, she telephones her dog Vladimir several times daily, just the sort of thing to alarm the security people. Doris ultimately proves that she is not an enemy agent. She runs amuck in a remote-controlled speedboat, does battle with a ferocious robot vacuum cleaner and sprawls aloft in an antigravity chamber...