Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wash (Beauty Grains) for clogged pores, found that "homogenized" raw silk was a good base for makeup, and made a Contour-Lift Film designed to firm up the jowls (at $5 a jar). Now & then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content of her Egg Complexion Soap had any beneficial effect on the skin. She altered her titles to conform, but feared the FTC less than her archrival Elizabeth Arden, who paid $50,000 a year to hire away Rubinstein...
With savings of $7,600 for campaign expenses, Tom went back to Nevada last February and began to lash out at McCarran's "machine rule" of the state. At street-corner meetings he came out for FEPC, federal power and the Administration's foreign policy; he denounced Bible as a member of McCarran's machine. Bible ran as a "states' rights Democrat" and native son, called Mechling a "brash young upstart." Irked by Tom's hard-hitting campaign, Pat McCarran himself went on the air, issued an eight-page statement urging Bible's election...
Both resolutions served notice that even in defeat, the Bevanite tail of Britain's labor movement packs a mean and powerful lash...
...Fingers. One method was to borrow an F94 (with afterburner) from the Air Force and lash it to the deck of the carrier Coral Sea. Under the watchful eyes of flight physicians,volunteers walked into its sound field. Few emerged without respect for what sound waves can do. When they get strong enough, the sound waves not only hurt the ears but make other parts of the body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand...
...King Committee (House), under California's Cecil King, is the scourge of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Next month it will lash away some more, at hearings in San Francisco, where some of the BIR's shadiest shenanigans have gone...