Word: shave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew they we were going to shave," Miao said of the Lions. "We knew they'd swim well...
...that Harvard overlooked the Lions. If anything, the aquamen had overlooked Navy the day before in preparation for Columbia. Navy's shave--which allows a team to take off the excess hair that accounts for unwelcome excess surface area and along the way pick up a huge psychological lift--caught the Crimson offguard...
That's what happens when you become a dynasty. "Other teams look at us," Miao adds, "and figure they have nothing to lose. So they shave...
Many of the first signs of a cultural crackdown were exquisitely subtle. Premier Zhao Ziyang quietly forsook his Western suits for Mao jackets. The Peking municipal government ordered its employees to shave off their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders...
...daybreak, exactly 72 hours before the terrorist explosion killed scores of his comrades at Marine headquarters, First Sergeant William Creech had just awakened and shuffled outside with his mirror and canteen of hot water to shave. And talk. "There's no comparison with Viet Nam," said the Georgian, at 34 older than most of his fellows. "We're here for high visibility, not to engage in combat." Life in any war zone is both tedious and desperately anxious...