Word: shaves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shepard himself had already put in even longer hours of preparation. That morning, he had been awakened at i a.m. After a shower and shave he had break fast: orange juice, eggs, tea and a y-oz. filet mignon wrapped in bacon was characteristic of the substantial but lowresidue diet that astronauts stick to when about to make a flight. After eating, Shepard got an elaborate physical examination. Everything was normal; so he moved to the suiting room to get into his space gear...
...John Wesley and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intellectual and psychological vignettes illuminate the contradictions of ruler and sage. As a bride of 16, Catherine the Great was ignorant of the facts of life, thought the only difference between men and women was that men, for some odd reason, had to shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play with his toy soldiers or flog a dachshund suspended by a rope from the ceiling. "In later life," writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this...
...self-mutilation." Good Soldier Peberdy reassuringly hastened to add that in the selection of officer candidates "the cut of a man's mustache could of course never be of influence." But just to be on the safe side, would-be subalterns with toothbrush mustaches might do well to shave-or keep a stiff upper...
Like most top swimmers, Bittick, Clark and Jastremski shave the hair from their legs just before a meet in the belief that it cuts down drag. "Maybe it's just psychological," says Bittick, "but you feel you are kind of slithering along." To slither better, Bittick also shaved the hair from his arms before his triple-crown performance. Clark's normal headdress is a close crew cut, but for the indoor championships he took a drastic trimming. He bounced out of the Yale pool with a shining, billiard-bald scalp. Actually, said
Clark, "I figured I could save $2, so I asked Coach George Haines to cut my hair with an electric razor. It looked so awful that I asked another swimmer to give me a complete shave. That's all there is to that...