Word: shave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to smell like everyone else at $12 a drop? My husband's after-shave lotion makes me unique among most women I come in contact with, and that at 98? a family-size bottle...
Epicures. In Milwaukee, records were published showing that the city's children last year swallowed gunbore cleaner, soldering flux, reducing pills, battery acid, furniture polish, lighter fluid, airplane glue, fertilizer, narcotics, tranquilizers, rubbing alcohol, hormones, after-shave lotion, camphorated oil, motor oil, iodine, toilet cleaners, laundry bleach, chromium polish, gasoline, kerosene, benzene, paint, wood alcohol, linseed oil, varnish, paint thinner, pesticides, cologne, toilet water...
...lost an eye in Indo-China, he was sent to Algeria to take command of the crack Third Colonial Parachute Regiment. A martinet but the idol of his men, Bigeard whipped them into shape by running them as much as 15 miles at a time. He made them shave every day, no matter where they were, doled out raw onions instead of the traditional wine ration because "wine reduces stamina." With all-night marches and sudden paratroop raids, he won every engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says one of his officers) that...
...whom to borrow from. Rich Uncle Simon seems a logical choice ("If you think that money isn't enough to make a person happy, you've just never met my Uncle Simon"), but Uncle Simon refuses with the reproach: "My boy, you want to learn how to shave on my beard...
...caused radio to jump out of bed and click its heels while the public was dressing for the funeral. Then you went and abdicated your programing to the 8-to-14-year-olds, to the pre-shave crowd that makes up 12% of the country's population and zero percent of its buying power-once you eliminate ponytail ribbons, Popsicles and peanut brittle. Youth must be served-but how about some music for the rest...