Word: shaves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess-hall fighting has been touched off when they have attempted to impose their dietary laws on other prisoners. Elijah's bizarre version of the Koran is barred in all prisons...
...title at Miami Beach. ¶ New York police began uncovering another major college basketball scandal by arresting two smalltime operators named Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken for paying $1,500 to a player for the University of Connecticut and $1,000 each to two players for Seton Hall to shave points this season...
There can be no relaxing after a plant is built. New processes that can shave fractions of a cent off the costs are coming along so fast that engineers are constantly redesigning plants. At its Baton Rouge plant, Humble Oil at first buried its pipes neatly underground. But it has dug them up so often for remodeling that it now has them running on easy to get at racks above ground...
...series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...
...water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest and goofiest sight gags since Stan Laurel looked into a bathroom mirror, saw a gorilla, decided that he must need a shave...