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Word: hairdryer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps on his motorcycle on the way to a home appointment. Like the avenues of another decadent empire, all of the loads in Shampoo's Los Angeles lead to George's beauty salon, where George sets the hair of beautiful women and then takes them home...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...milk and cookies on Saturday nights, the midnight food raids on the kitchen, sedate jolly-ups, all part of the same inhibiting idiom--would go out with the rules. Because an all female Radcliffe--corridor doors promising no more than someone in curlers and bathroom slippers hunched under a hairdryer, or exam hysteria when girls lined the walls clut-ching their notes to their breasts like death row diariers--because a lime, peach, and chocolate flavored Radcliffe was Hell...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

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