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Word: showered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want girls!" some of the boys yowled, "we want sex!" "We want panties!" screamed the rest. Not quite in the spirit of things, the girls threw shower curtains and pillows from the windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rites of Spring | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Nearby, at Swarthmore College, 75 freshman coeds serenaded a boys' dormitory. The lads responded by dousing the girls with water. A few of the girls even managed to get pulled into the boys' shower, from which late bathers were forced to beat a hasty retreat. Other girls "were dragged across the campus, given long and generous "mudpack" treatments at convenient puddles. Swarthmore police were interested but inactive spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rites of Spring | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...orders as she eats. It is 7:15 p.m., and often later, before her powder-blue, Government-owned Cadillac pulls up in front of the Connecticut Avenue apartment where she lives (along with such other tenants as the Alben Barkleys, Senator Eugene Millikin, Justice Tom Clark). Then, after a shower and a light supper, there is homework. Most nights, Oveta Hobby is hard at work until midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lady in Command | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Korea is the musical combo. Combos are made up of six or seven men; their equipment consists of piano, drums, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones, bull fiddle (with rifles, bazookas, stretchers and ammo boxes in emergencies). Fighting men are likely to find a combo blasting away almost anywhere -at the shower tents just behind Old Baldy, at the medical-clearing stations where the litters are coming in fast, at the rest-area hoedowns helping G.I.s cut an Oriental rug with Korean belles decked out in latest Sears, Roebuck couture. And wherever soldiers find a combo, they keep it busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Back of Old Baldy | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Niagara is, of course, a cheap picture. There is a cheap song, "Kiss," for Marilyn to breathe convulsively. And even talented Joseph Cotten gives a cheap performance as Marilyn's shabby husband. But Niagara does have its highlights; and everyone will have his own favorite scene: red dress, shower curtain, blue dress, negligee...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Niagara | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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