Word: combs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a few things that are mine?the comb, the rabbit's tail my daddy gave me before he died . . . I had a luck bracelet, but I left it some place...
Corporations are under less pressure to comb campuses this year. Thousands of unemployed, older college-trained workers are still in the job market. Viet Nam era veterans are also in abundance; their unemployment rate is 8.2%, as opposed to 6.1% for the work force as a whole (up slightly from November). Employees who might have changed jobs in better times are hanging on to them now, creating fewer openings for new graduates. Litton Industries, for example, has cut its intake of graduates to half of 1968's level. "Getting the best people is easier for us now," says...
...where coveralled owners lavish on their animals care that would do credit to Elizabeth Arden. In one stall a West Texas matron in toreador pants, see-through blouse and perhaps the last bouffant hairdo in Western civilization teased the tip of her Hereford's tail with a hot comb. Her loving efforts were of little avail, however; most of the significant Hereford trophies went to Winrock Farms, owned by a former Governor of Arkansas name of Winthrop Rockefeller...
Middle-age panic is an adrenaline that flows through many American novels. The hero's symptoms seldom vary. The taste of a stale marriage is on his lips. A run-of-the-treadmill job is under his feet. Falling hair is in his comb, and gray rather than great expectations cloud his eyes. Literary ways of dealing with this theme naturally vary. The approach chosen by Luke Rhinehart for his first novel is to consider the middle-age heebie-jeebies as a condition of the soul, angst-laden with boredom and despair...
...comb your hair and look quite cute...