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Word: powders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ship to campuses all over the country. But, unless some-one wants to mount a campaign to bring the Onion to Harvard, you'll have to check it out online at www.theonion.com. Harvard even finds a place in Our Dumb Century, when John F. Kennedy calls himself not a powder puff but "Ich bin Ein Ivy-League playboy millionaire" and "Ich bin ein privileged, blue-blood Harvard...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Our Surprisingly Spammy Century | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...high school outcasts have moved beyond the chess club and the audio-visual squad. Now they are wearing black T shirts, trench coats and hard-kicking Doc Martens. Many are also wearing face powder and black eyeliner. "A lot of it is just a front--a mass cry for attention," says McConnell. "Mostly there's nothing behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: A Curse Of Cliques | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...hold thousands of pages of best-selling text. I have always been a Princess and the Pea kind of sleeper. The slightest noise--even the sound of a page being turned--is enough to make me sit bolt upright, as if a torpedo had just slammed into the powder room. E-books are noiseless. Also, since they are backlit, your bedmate can read them in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Book Report | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...Luckily, for the fume-afflicted, there is hope in some preventative over-the-counter drugstore remedies. Everyone's favorite medical professional, Dr. Scholl's, has a massive stake in the market. With his baby powder scent Odor Destroyers sole inserts ($3.69), users can trim the one-size-fits-all slab of scented cushion to fit the bottom of any shoe. No lefty scissors handy? Realize that these pads might flip and flap away with flip-flops? Coat the inside of your shoe with the Doctor's Shoe Shot deodorant powder ($6.99), featuring a Toilet-Duck-style neck and Zinoxol...

Author: By V.c. Hallett, | Title: Those Stinky, Nasty Feet | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...other companies, Gold Bond, whose primary product is advertised as a cure for the "male itch," also dips into the foot odor powder business with their stout blue bottles of Gold Bond Medicated Foot Powder with Methanol ($3.77). For a more upscale and superficial remedy, the Body Shop sells Refreshing Foot Spray ($4.50), a blue-tinted watery substance that perfumes tootsie nastiness with rosemary and tea tree oils. Finally, footloose...

Author: By V.c. Hallett, | Title: Those Stinky, Nasty Feet | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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