Word: glim
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...competition, it opened the door to competition for the whole soap industry from the chemical makers, who supplied many of the raw materials for the detergents. Monsanto, backed by huge research funds, introduced All, persuaded washing-machine makers to hand it out to their customers. General Aniline brought out Glim, a liquid detergent for dishwashing...
...faded, but their disciples are still lighting little peat fires on the general bog of contemporary Irish literature. The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim...
...Much Glim. In Mt. Penn, Pa. (pop. 3,700), housewives got-and promptly tried-free samples of "Glim," a super-sudsy detergent made by General Aniline & Film Corp. Within a few hours, tons of grease that had accumulated in sewage pipes over the years were cut loose and the town's small sewage plant was virtually buried in bubbles, which overflowed onto neighboring lawns. General Aniline cleaned up the mess with "Chat,' another detergent that makes no suds...
...plugged." Quitting his Vatican observatory after an evening of star gazing, absent-minded Professor Father John Stein forgot to switch off the lights, left them blazing like a beacon over blacked-out Rome. Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim...
...Even Eugene O'Neill, the paragon of present day critics, is "an unsatisfactory genius." "--it is as an emotionalist, and not as a thinker, that Mr. O'Neill excels. His strength is of the great, raw, shaggy kind that Whitman's has. It is soberer, starker and infinitely more glim. But it is no less torrential, savage as it is, with the same energy, heavy with the same profusion and cumulative in the same headlong...