Word: refreshers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pennies and phony posies, ersatz ballet dancers, grasshoppers and turtles. The materials are the best that mon ey can buy: coral, jade, moonstone. The price tags come high: $475.75 down to $89.75. Each year Mr. Ben adds up the six bits and other pieces, sends himself to Europe to refresh himself on the shapes of chapeaux. On departure's eve, as a special bon voyage present, he invites his faithful clients to a soiree sale at 2:15 a.m., since it is never too early to catch a bargain, with every one of 400 hats marked down to only...
...Chancellors always refresh themselves during the tedious budget speech. "If there is any speculation as to what this liquid I am drinking is," said Lloyd, "I can say it has certain medicinal properties . . . For every gallon you drink the revenue benefits to the tune...
Front-Page Fare. Five hundred reporters have already arrived, clogging Jerusalem's cramped hotel space. Many of them stopped off first at the gas chambers of Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz to refresh readers' memories with the tales of such folk as Use Koch, the warden's wife accused of making lampshades of human skin...
Cruising endlessly under water, the Navy's subs have a private atmosphere all their own in which a single supply of air is breathed again and again. Whenever the oxygen level gets low, huge high-pressure cylinders of oxygen refresh the air, and there is also an electrolytic cell that turns sea water into oxygen and hydrogen, shooting the latter out of the submarine. For emergencies, the Naval Research Laboratory has provided ingenious "candles" made of sodium chlorate and powdered iron. When they are ignited, they emit oxygen, not the carbon dioxide that is given off by ordinary candles...
...strange caravan stopped in Beirut last week to refresh itself after eight long months on the road. On July 11, a party of 101 Americans had moved out of Cape Town in a wagon train of 41 aluminum trailers and 41 pastel-colored trucks. They had zigzagged over desert, through jungle and swamp, and it was obvious that where-ever they went, the natives-the black miners of the South, the willowy Watutsis, the squat Pygmies, the haughty Moslems of the North-had never seen anything quite like them. The adults among the travelers were all retired, and their ages...