Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleasant as the bathing was, it was also very taxing. Water tended to cling firmly to the body and to the shower compartment's walls. As a result, Kerwin said, "it takes forever to dry both one's self and the wall ... even using that inadequate little vacuum cleaner that we've got." Skylab's toilet, in contrast, worked very efficiently. In fact, recalling the messy urine tubes and collection bags of earlier flights, Space Rookie Weitz said: "As a new boy hearing horror stories from the old hands, I was deliriously happy and surprised...
...view, the Saudi and Kuwaiti interests are focused primarily on protecting their oil-rich territories against possible attack by other Middle Eastern states. Soviet-armed Iraq, for instance, has already scared tiny Kuwait with border incursions. But why should the U.S., which carefully avoided trying to fill the military vacuum left by Britain's withdrawal from the Persian Gulf in 1971, decide to get involved now? The answer, mentioned but not emphasized by Washington officials, may largely...
Nathan is not exactly entering a vacuum with his seductive propaganda for peace. For more than 25 years, Middle East listeners have been caught in an ideological crossfire of radio rhetoric...
...There's very little leadership. Decision making? Forget it. There's a vacuum...
...Reader Beatrice Neal is right, of course, in her assertion that God is the key stone to the understanding of the universe without whom everything is essentially meaningless [April 30], for it is precisely to fill this vacuum that man devised the concept of God in the first place. But try to cajole a group of disillusioned children into believing in Santa Claus again; it won't work, and I suggest we search elsewhere to cure the mass hysteria already enveloping the world as man slowly awakens from a cherished fairy tale...