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Word: lysol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flat rubber and polyurethane, tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes to clamber around in Lucas Samaras' glittering, mirror-encrusted Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit warren, Corridor, 1967. Hippies gazed dreamily through the barred door of Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital into a Lysol-scented interior where lay the pathetic form of a lunatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: White Wings in the Sunlight | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Klan 100, they may be Ruinous too. For whatever individual nemeses may await the Klan's various leaders during 13 weeks of public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, daylight and logic are as lethal to the huggermugger mystique of the "invisible empire" as Lysol is to microbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Dark Days in Weird Week | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...infinitely more dangerous than that of a steeple jack. Of her poet friends, nearly a dozen killed themselves one way or another. Elfin Elinor Wylie did it by burning the candle at both ends; Vachel (The Congo) Lindsay made a more gruesome exit by drinking a bottle of Lysol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Philistia to Bohemia | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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