Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candid, grandfatherly rumble from a man whose very name has been used by Democrats for years to frighten Prosperity's babies. Warned ex-President Herbert Hoover: "Secretary Humphrey says that unless we change some of our ways, we will see 'a depression that will curl your hair.' Mine has already been curled once, and I think I can detect the signs . . . Unless we curb inflation on its way up, Old Man Economic Law will return with a full equipment of hair curlers...
...House can't have the entry system, or fireplaces, or private baths. Without the insurance of period design, it may be like a horse-hair sofa today, an object of horror thirty years hence. And it may have the acoustical virtues of a giant tuning fork like that Great Mistake, Harkness Commons. But for all that, we're glad its on the way. Lebensraum...
...civil war in Algeria, they ordered an eight-day general strike of all Arabs in Algeria and France. Algerians literally sniffed the arrival of the killers whose job was to make the strike stick: young Arab gunmen who invariably spend a portion of their blood money on jasmine-scented hair pomade. Leaflets in crudely printed Arabic pledged death to Arab "traitors" who reported for jobs, or to shopkeepers who opened their shutters...
...hundred cyrotrons can fit into a thimble. Cryotrons are little coils of hair-thin wire wrapped around a piece of straight wire...
...appeal for governmental conference, Hoover repeated Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent forecast that big federal budgets, if long continued, will produce "a depression that will curl your hair...