Word: dunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his right hip starts to ache, as it does more and more often these days, Yugoslavian Bossman Josef Broz Tito, 70, likes to dunk his bones in a shallow, sun-warmed, saltwater pool built for him at his villa on the Adriatic island of Brijoni. But come winter, Brijoni's climate is just too cold and cloudy, so the dictator has ordered yet another villa, likely to be equipped with his specially designed pool, to be built 170 miles southeast on the island of Hvar, where the hotelkeepers refund the day's rent if the sun doesn...
...Astaurov has spent 30 years on his research. He began by working out dependable ways to make silkworm eggs hatch into worms of the desired sex. Female worms are comparatively easy to produce: Astaurov's most dependable system is to wash unfertilized eggs and dunk them for 18 minutes in water heated to 115° F. This heat shock makes the eggs start developing as if they had been fertilized, and since they contain no male contribution, they all produce females like their mothers...
Redundantly voted "The World's Most Muliebrous Woman" by the French Parfum Distributors Association, Cinemactress Tina (God's Little Acre) Louise donned a blue bikini and tucked an orchid in her bosom to receive her reward: a dunk in a bathtub full of Arpege at a Manhattan showroom. Tina sloshed hundreds of dollars of Lanvin's best over the side when she sank in, then slithered out. cooing "Now you can say, 'Promise him anything, but give him Louise...
...like the story about the time his dog sled plunged through a hole in the Yukon ice. "It was bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began in 1950 when he was assigned to Alakanuk, on a Yukon delta...
...shave commercial cost Mennen more than $10,000. lasts 60 seconds, was conceived by copywriters at Manhattan's Grey Advertising Agency. Before giving the idea the up thumb last autumn, Grey executives sent out for a 30-gallon aquarium, ordered one of the copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could not see the need...