Word: shave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some six years later) while he edited a Socialist paper, hawked tips as a waiter ("He was a first-class waiter, fast and always impeccable"). Sighed Rachele: "Those were the best years. He had never learned to shave himself, and I used to shave him every morning...
...Baby Sitters and Music to Break a Lease. There are mood albums, the record companies boast, for every member of the family and for almost every household activity. Still, the possibilities remain vast. Not yet in the catalogue: Music for Boozing and Music to Soothe Your Hangover, Music to Shave By (so far, the bathroom has scarcely been tapped), Music for the Analyst's Couch, Music to Beat Your Wife By and Music to Spoil Your Taste for Music...
...makers of the first atomic bomb. "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night," he says, "and wonder whether I am doing good or not. Then I comfort myself with the thought that Gillette was a man who made a wonderful safety razor that enabled one to shave without cutting one's throat. It is not Mr. Gillette's fault if people take the blade out of the razor and cut their wrists with...
They must also shave the tops of their heads in an open tonsure and should not be seen smoking on the street. Scooters and motorcycles may be used only with special permission and on church business-and never with a female passenger. And he reminded priests that they "are prohibited from all those public spectacles in which scandals are seen-theaters, cinemas, modern dances, professional football, bull rings...
Required by law to send his fiscal 1958 budget to Congress last January, Dwight Eisenhower soon made it clear that his Administration was still trying to find ways to shave the record-breaking $71.8 billion. Later, after Treasury Secretary George Humphrey set off a clamorous flap by predicting that big budgets would lead to a hair-curling depression, President Eisenhower passed the hot budget potato to Congress, saying that it was the "duty" of Congressmen to cut spending-if they possibly could. The House of Representatives tossed the potato right back with a resolution asking the President to point...