Word: scissors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better alternative is to turn to one of the 170-odd nonprofit community credit counseling services. The services make the debtor sign an agreement to take on no more credit and to hand over all his charge cards. Often a counselor will scissor the cards to pieces before the debtor's eyes. The service then negotiates extended repayment of the loans and collects a fixed monthly payment from the debtor that it parcels out among the creditors...
Helmholz prepares for his singe jobs like a surgeon before an operation. Each customer gets a thorough workup, with the results-tensile strength, absorption factor and elasticity of hair-printed on special reference cards. Says Helmholz: "We leave nothing to chance." Then the hair is washed and scissor-trimmed by aides, after which Helmholz himself arrives, torch in hand. Moving it from right to left across the customer's head, using a comb as a baffle, he burns off a few strands at a time, starting at the front of the crown and working down to the earlobes...
...cautiously, Feisal has been nudging Saudi Arabia into the 20th century. He abolished slavery early in his reign. He introduced television over the protests of religious leaders, who called TV"the work of the devil." Saudi Arabia now has eight stations and about 300,000 sets. Government censors scissor out any scenes of drinking, smoking or passionate kissing. Saudi viewers have a particular fondness for American programs like I Love Lucy and Bonanza...
...acre compound to supervise the 2,250 prisoners. Moving swiftly, the convicts rushed through three of the quadrangular cell blocks (see cut) and set fires in six buildings. The chapel, prison school and machine shop were completely gutted. Quickly producing knives, pipes, baseball bats and makeshift spears fashioned from scissor blades and broom handles, the inmates captured guards and civilian employees for hostages...