Word: showered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered, and there he sat, without dinner, taking his hazing. The hazers, rougher than they are these days, sought him out in barracks. They made him stand for an hour at attention holding a heavy book extended in one hand. On cold nights, he was shoved under a cold shower and his bedding thrown in with him. "He never complained, even to me," said his roommate. "This was the system and this was the life he wanted for himself...
...significantly finds this symbol of faith broken and deserted-"There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home." But at the deepest point of despair, the rumble of thunder brings promise of rain to the waste land. The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like the first shower of long-looked-for rain, shantih, shantih, shantih, meaning: "The Peace which passeth understanding...
...Safety Showers. The whole plant, even the lavatories, swarms with watchful Geiger counters. They are usually clicking phlegmatically, but they can roar a sudden warning if anything goes wrong. In each building is a place on the floor marked "shower." A worker who has spilled a dangerous substance on his clothes can dash to the shower and drench himself with life-saving water...
...selecting Winston Churchill as Man of the Half-Century, TIME'S vision is matched by its viscera; for, mark you, the fanatical followers of FDR will shower you with brickbats and dead cats...