Word: camay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crossmyloof rink at Glasgow last week, none of the five Scottish teams scored such a shutout, but they did manage to whip the Americans in the first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
...omnipresent advertising is the smooth promotional touch of Neil McElroy, who moved into the president's chair only 19 months ago, when Richard Deupree became board chairman. Just out of Harvard in 1925, McElroy started at the bottom in P. & G.'s advertising department, plugged Camay toilet soap door-to-door, later directed ad campaigns for such products as Dreft, Drene, and Duz, which he made bestsellers. As president, he still likes the person-to-person approach, will talk soap to his wife's bridge party guests, or to anybody he meets at any time to learn...