Word: mops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's verdict presumably marked the end of a long and tortuous trail for Hulan Jack. A teen-aged immigrant from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, he began his career at the end of a mop handle, as janitor for the Peerless Paper
...bleak cell at a Tokyo juvenile detention home one night last week, a mop-haired teenager mixed a palmful of tooth powder with a few drops of water and scrawled a message on the wall: "Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!'' Then Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, tore his bed sheet into strips, knotted them into a rope, stood up on a toilet bowl and hanged himself from the light fixture in the ceiling. Yamaguchi, who last month stabbed Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma to death at a political rally, had lived...
...detect a note of bitterness from those housewives who are disturbed at Jackie Kennedy's "chic"? May I say, on behalf of the male sex, that we love her "devil-may-care chic" and "floor-mop" hairdo...
...They're beginning to snipe at me about as often as they attack Jack on Catholicism," said Jackie, who also gets mail criticizing her for her "floor mop" hairdo. "I think it's dreadfully unfair." That $30,000 figure was dreadfully unfair, too, said she. "I never buy more than one suit or coat from Balenciaga and Givenchy. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear." Then came what is generally called the woman's touch. Said Jackie: "I'm sure I spend less than Mrs. Nixon on clothes. She gets hers...
...life, and hold the promise of a new industrial era in the 1960s. No facet of living-or of manufacturing-has escaped the restless minds of inventors trying to devise newer, cheaper, faster or better ways of doing things. Some are as simple and gadgety as the self-shaking mop; some are as complicated as the sealed-window, almost dust-free house. Some are as frivolous as a musical toothbrush that sounds a sour note when the teeth are not brushed correctly; some are as awe-inspiring as the purposeful arc of Echo threading its way through the stars...