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Word: lifebuoy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollar enables a British firm to put up fewer pounds for a buyout. Unilever, which had 1976 revenues of $14.8 billion, dwarfs National Starch, which posted 1976 sales of $339 million. But National Starch's industrial markets complement Unilever's lines of household products, which include Lifebuoy and Wisk, Pepsodent toothpaste and Lipton tea, and would make Unilever a little less dependent on the housewife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Takeovers | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Berkeley, but a handful of radicals felt that they had to protest something on Earth Day. They picked a dovish political science professor, Hubert Humphrey. After listening to a bombardment of obscenities from 50 antiwar protesters, H.H.H. objected to the language, suggested that their tongues needed a bath in Lifebuoy. Pacified, the pacifists wound up touring the Humphrey house and inspecting his memorabilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1970 | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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