Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Visiting a Body Shop is like walking into the headquarters of a political cabal -- albeit one scented with dewberry perfume. There are slogans and messages scattered among the fruit-scented soaps and peppermint foot lotions. Exhortations to save the whales and fight for human rights shout from store windows, countertops and recycled shopping bags. Even Body Shop trucks are employed as rolling billboards for pithy slogans. Roddick's current favorite, taken from the side of one of her company's lorries: IF YOU THINK YOU'RE TOO SMALL TO HAVE AN IMPACT, TRY GOING TO BED WITH A MOSQUITO...
...environmentally conscious, the Body Shop offers the popular peppermint foot lotion and gift baskets, said Bill Stevenson, co-franchisee of the natural beauty care chain...
...lakes and marshes, settlers built wooden homes, some on stilts, and cultivated barley and peas. Communities of 50 to 200 people dotted the shores of Lake Constance and a number of Swiss lakes, with central buildings for social functions. These villagers evidently traveled across the Alps; parsley and peppermint from the Mediterranean region have been found in some of their Neolithic dwellings. In exchange, they may have offered daintily fashioned white stone "pearls" of Alpine limestone, which have shown up in neighboring regions...
Maybe it's too close to my next exam for peppermint hand lotion to give me peace of mind--but it did clear my sinuses...
...Blunsten is better than sex," claims Maya Nedkarni '92, who plays Peppermint Blunsten...