Word: shave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trappists came to densely Protestant Georgia by daycoach from the largest of the three Trappist monasteries in the U.S. - Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Louisville, Ky. All were bearded, except the abbot (he alone can shave), the youngest was 30, the oldest 56. They arrived at night in torrents of rain, went to bed on the floor of the large two-story, white brick barn...
...Mexican race, in general, is very unclean, untidy and unsanitary as far as personal health and living conditions are concerned. They seldom bathe, seldom shave. . . . They think nothing of having their dogs, cats, chickens . . . under the same roof with them. We Texans are at least half-civilized and have sense enough to desire cleanliness. I guess that is the reason we don't especially care for them cluttering up our towns and cities...
...shells land about 100 yards away. "We'll get some artillery on those Krauts if we locate them," he said. He looked to his left and saw Sergeant James Clements with his shirt off and lathering his face. "Look," said Toffey, "Clements picks this quiet time to shave." He grinned tiredly, and took the radio receiver. "Look, Benny," he said, "don't get excited. We just killed you some Krauts and we'll kill you some more as soon as you tell us where they...
...typical TIME reader" (this week, men only) you have blue eyes and brown hair, are 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weigh 165 Ibs. and wear glasses. The chances are 100 to i against your wearing a beard, 10 to 1 against your having a mustache. Instead you shave clean every day, and you are more likely to swear than sing while you are doing it. You don't admit to a bay window-and you have no use for setting up exercises...
Boxing has suffered from the war: four champions have been killed in battle. But last week crowds packed the Palace of Physical Culture to watch a squat, shave-headed slugger named Nikolai Korolev outpoint the Red Army's Ivan Ganykin in four rounds to become "absolute champion of Moscow." Korolev weighed 198 lb., Ganykin 156. Member of the Order of the Red Banner (for his guerrilla fighting behind Nazi lines), Korolev boasts of his letters from Joe Louis...