Word: lint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduction in vacuum service--from once a week to once every two--will allow more lint and old newspapers to accumulate under beds and furniture, an annoying inconvenience for the more fastidious undergraduate. But the cause of the manpower shortage is certainly welcome: Students who work part-time can now wear white collars, instead of blue...
...bones, and even those you could have wrapped in a hankie. His twisted figure was like a knotted string, and he hated his parishioners. With fierce Puritan intensity he preached burning, his whole inside crying die, shouting die. He worked in his garden obsessively, like a madman picking imaginary lint from his sleeve. He wanted women, imagined them in every posture. He wrote dirty doggerel and lied-his single skill. He lived in a thousand careening pieces, like a shattered army...
...three conference rooms around Detroit, preparations are being made for a decisive confrontation. At the corporate headquarters of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, janitors are washing blackboards, flicking pieces of lint from carpets and drapes, buffing and rebuffing elongated tables. Across these tables next week, scores of bargainers from the auto industry's Big Three will square off against negotiators from the United Auto Workers in Round 1 of the 1964 labor negotiations...
Come to think of it, what would Gary Grant look like stepping out of his Rolls-Royce in a cloud of Sy Devore's lined lint...
...belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee. Sy recommends leather boots to go with all this. The overall impression is a kind of subdued ostentation, part banker, part bookie, part ivy, part jivy. Everything is lined with paisley silk. Even the lint is lined...