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Word: shower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore driving maestro Glenn Alexander led the Harvard charge with an eight over par 79. Alexander was even par at the turn, but a late-round rain shower left his back nine score flooded with high numbers, as the Quincy House resident lost eight shots to par in the final seven holes...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Linksters Fall to Holy Cross | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...lounge and roll on to the text stop. They are passengers on the newest thing in pampered tourism: the mobile motel. The Snoozer, as it is inevitably known, is a live-aboard bus with a bar, kitchen, sky lounge and eight mahogany-paneled passenger rooms, each with two beds, shower and toilet, radio, closed-circuit television, closet, dresser, heating and air conditioning. The first of ten vehicles to be eventually acquired by the nationally franchised Travel Network Corp. went into operation this month in Arizona, Nevada and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Mobile Motel | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...this time, the boulder had become the star attraction of Southern California. Rock watchers came chuffing up in running suits and shower shoes. Others paddled to the scene in kayaks. Cars blocked the highway for miles. Catering wagons rolled in with sandwiches and soft drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Rock of Ages | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...enlivened every artillery barrage and exchange of small-arms fire, not to mention kidnaping, livestock rustling and planting of poisoned bamboo stakes. In its loud political buildup to the invasion, China underscored the border aggravations to anyone who would listen?at the U.N., in diplomatic exchanges, and in a shower of communiques. Peking also claimed that Viet Nam was mobilizing for war by drafting recruits at a rate that surpassed the height of the war against Saigon and the U.S., and by calling 200,000 ex-servicemen back under arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...houseboat with sleeping space for six may be bought new for $38,000. Major costs thereafter will be about $1,200 a year for insurance and perhaps $2,700 for marina rental. In northern climes, electricity and heating fuel may add another $1,000 a year. Many marinas provide shower rooms, laundry facilities, security, and free parking. Says Jim Cole, head of special services at bustling Marina del Rey in Southern California, where the owner of a 30-ft. boat pays only about $100 a month: "You couldn't rent a flophouse for that kind of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Boat People, American-Style | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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