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Word: foams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's why I adored the idea in your new book about batacas-the plastic-foam bats that sexual partners can smack each other with. I rushed out and bought a pair, and while George was taking off his shoes, I crept up behind him (nude, of course) and gave him a loving bataca shot behind the right ear. As he got up off the floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: More Tidings of Comfort and Joy | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage to nerves and organs from carbon disulfide among workers in rayon textile plants. Muscle and Blood also explores continuing safety hazards in the mining and automobile industries, as well as the psychological stresses in automated assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Muckrakers | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...waved from our ships upon the briny foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord, They've Done It All | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...North Portico. Sandy has been the White House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled off. His tummy is the creation of his daughter Debbie, who glued together several pieces of foam rubber and sewed it all up in red cotton for the benefit of the republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The White House Becomes a Home | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...teeth. Using a regular child's toothbrush, he began brushing vigorously, trying to remove every trace of a sweet red wafer handed him a moment before by the technician. "It tastes like candy!" he yelled to a screaming crowd of balloon-carrying children, as pink foam from the brushing streamed over his sunburned chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hucksters for Health | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

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