Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of whether the tower could legally be built on landfill. California's outgoing State Attorney General Thomas Lynch implied in a ruling that an office building-but not a hotel-would violate a law that limits such projects to "water-oriented uses." Cyril Magnin raised an eyebrow: "What's so much more water-oriented about a hotel than an office, except maybe you can take a bath there...
...field-grade officers (major and above)-ever develop a sustained taste for Pleiku Pink, Bleu de Hué, Cambodian-made Park Lane No. 2s, and the myriad other varieties of marijuana that have become freely available in South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here, and the young officers are smoking it nearly as much...
Collapsed Balcony. Most manufacturers offer waterbed guarantees, ranging from 90 days to an eyebrow-raising 50 years. Leaks are infrequent, and most beds come with repair kits similar to those used for inner tubes...
...middle initial). His appetite is so fierce that, given a choice between ten thousand dollars and a cookie, he opts immediately for the latter. There are other creatures on the show, like Bert and Erniehumanoids with cartoon hands, three fingers and a thumb. Bert, who has one frowning eyebrow, chivvies Mutt-and-Jeff style with Ernie, a bulbous-nosed charmer whose favorite sport is sitting in the tub, rhapsodizing to his rubber duckie. Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can. There he fulminates, venting such mock aggressions that by comparison a child in a tantrum is Little Mary...
...affected side of the face sags, the eyebrow droops and the mouth hangs open. The victim of facial paralysis, which results from damage to facial nerves by injury or surgery, often finds it difficult to eat or speak and impossible to close one eye. Worse, he loses the ability to communicate by facial expression, so that an attempt to smile may result in a terrifying grimace, an effort at laughter in the appearance of intense suffering. For many years, facial paralysis has been uncorrectable. Lately, however, surgeons have been experiencing success with several new operations...