Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mental health study of 400 mustachioed applicants for officer training. He divided up the candidates by type of mustache: trimmed (short hairs over entire upper lip), bushy, toothbrush, hairline and divided. For trimmed, bushy, hairline and divided types, the "pass" rate was an average 23%-about the same as clean-shaven men. By astonishing contrast, not a single man with a toothbrush mustache passed. Incredulous, Peberdy persuaded a fellow psychiatrist to run a similar test at another British military base. There, also, to his surprise, not a single toothbrush passed...
...Clean, Mr. Clean. Ostrow is dubious about the noncommercial value of commercials ("I don't think they can become part of the literature"), and Songwriter Rome, who once wrote something for Sanka, is even less enthusiastic: "I can't get any emotion into Sanka coffee...
...Elaine, go to your dressing room!' Dig that. The teacher complex. She always talks as though she'd memorized her own writing. You want to hear Jean say, 'Gee, you were great, Elaine.' Instead, you get nothing but humor 24 hours a day. They're a clean-cut couple. She drinks beer and he goes in for Cokes and Hershey bars. Jean should swing a bit with a Gibson and find herself...
...jungle with that man?'' By that standard, each was eligible for Monty's safari except Khrushchev. Mao, whom he met in Peking in May 1960, he regarded as 'the peace-loving ruler of an emancipated people-sort of trustworthy, friendly, courteous, cheerful, clean and reverent. Can Mao be persuaded that "the best interests of China lie in being friendly to the West?" Says Monty: "I shall do my best to bring this about...
Smoke & Drink. In passing, Monty has a lot to say about courage ("One of the greatest of human qualities") and justice ("[It] cannot prevail without the sanction of force"). He is perhaps most eloquent about clean living: "Abstemiousness is vital-in food, in drink, in smoking, in social activities. So is need for regular sleep." Monty once reproachfully told Churchill: "I never smoke, never drink, I'm always in bed by 9:30, and I'm 100 percent fit." To which Churchill, who has his own definition of leadership, replied: "I never stop smoking, drink when I like...