Word: showered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Help Me!" Mack Charles Parker, 23, a truck driver scheduled to go on trial in a few days for the rape of a 24-year-old white woman last February, leaped from his bunk, pulled on his pants, made for the shower. For a moment the men fumbled with the key, then opened the cell door and rushed in. "Get him! Get him!" one man snarled. They swarmed all over...
...varsity stayed in the game for four innings. It began well, scoring two runs in the first and one in the second, and sending a good Navy pitcher to an early shower in the process...
Meanwhile, by far the most active operative on the Tufts side of the field was coach Bob Meeham, who carried on a running verbal battle with the plate umpire that would have earned him a thumb and a shower in any professional game. His loud-spoken comments to the unfortunate arbiter included such pleasantries as "rabbit-ears," "Get into the ball game," and assorted profanities...
...Pudding show is a mass of incongruities: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, thinly disguised, hob-nob with a Marxist chambermaid; an Irish plumber appears in the midst of the expatriate rich on the isle of Elba; a sexy French singer takes a copy of Dr. Zhivago into the shower with her. Yet somehow all these strained touches combine to make an evening...
...Showers for Pigs. The indoor life cycle of the chickens forecasts the future, for all farm animals. Purdue University has a $700,000 climate-control program in which, among other things, pigs take regular shower baths. Says Animal Science Professor Frederick N. Andrews: "Pigs do not wallow in mud because they like to be dirty. They wallow in mud because they have no sweat glands to keep them cool." With daily or even hourly shower baths, meticulous regulation of the temperature, humidity and even the air movement around them for each day of their lives, Purdue's hogs grow...