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Word: washingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, there is no doubt that many U.S. girls are now joyously submitting to overexposure. Bikini bottoms have shrunk to two wispy triangles held together with a bit of elastic and a prayer. Tops have plunged dangerously close to see-level, give the illusion that one good wave will wash everything away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Beach | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

Since Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, the waves of tourism that wash its many beaches have reached almost tidal proportions. Visitors have increased by 75% in the past six years, and developers have rushed to capitalize on the bonanza. On four of Hawaii's major islands, some 64 resorts and hotels are now in various stages of building or planning. This week one of the biggest names in the resort business in another ocean makes his Pacific bow: Laurance Rockefeller will open his $15 million-plus Mauna Kea Beach Hotel complex on the "big island" of Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Builder's Paradise | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...ease a water shortage. Last week, in the midst of the worst drought they have faced in this century, New Yorkers could get a glass of water in a restaurant only if they specifically asked for it. Residents were forbidden (on pain of fines) to water lawns or gardens, wash cars, turn on fountains. In Manhattan men's rooms, signs cautioned: DON'T FLUSH FOR EVERYTHING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather: The Downhill Winds | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...rooms displaying paintings have no windows; the brilliant light of Provence streams through filters in the ceiling. "I had a holy horror," says Maeght, "of trying to look at a painting streaked by rays of the sun." So that visitors may "wash their eyes" between, say, a room of Braques and a room of Mirós, spacious views open out onto a grassy patio or a lily-padded pool. Blending all these delightful and special touches into a bold structure that wholly integrates architecture with painting and sculpture was Catalonian Architect José Luis Sert, dean of the Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Stones for the Spirit | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...with the purchase of gasoline. Texaco dealers last year sold 2,000,000 red fire hats with built-in, transistorized loudspeakers for only $3.98, about one-third of the retail price. Sinclair gives away dinosaur-shaped cakes of soap for children, and Pure Oil dealers offer a free car wash with every eight gallons of gasoline, plus wrist watches, movie cameras and coffee pots at cut rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Changes at the Pump | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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