Word: shaving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result has been a rash of new habits. Men have been surprised to learn that a shave normally consumes 2% gal. of water; they are no longer filling wash basins just to cut whiskers. Julie Graham, a San Rafael housewife with three children, uses a pail to catch the cool water her husband runs until he gets hot water for shaving. She carries it in a bucket to the kitchen to wash dishes. Then she collects the dishwater in another pail, as well as water from the clothes washer, and uses it to flush toilets. "I've spent...
Daterman knows the pheromone's power from personal experience: "You can take a shower, shave, wash your clothes, and the moths will still find you." Nonetheless, Daterman is willing to suffer the indignity of the moths' affections for the sake of insect control. After all, he says, "it's only embarrassing in the presence of another scientist who knows what the moth has on his mind...
...into that scene for a while," Baggott said while contemplating the ham loaf with pineapple sauce. "Few people in my position would go to Harvard. Why we used to shave our hair off for the football season. We were total monsters, but something in my character said I didn't want that to continue...
...bottomless trade deficit-already $2.1 billion for the first nine months of this year -is wiped out by North Sea oil. Some analysts have already concluded that the government's target date of self-sufficiency in oil by 1980 should be moved ahead. The oil is expected to shave more than $1.75 billion off the trade deficit next year, more than $4 billion in 1978 and $9 billion...
...huge concert was about to begin in an hour. After a quick shave and a glass of milk, Horowitz dashed off for the concert hall, and entered just as the conductor. Eugen Pabst, was finishing the symphony that was to precede the concerto. Parts to the Tschaikovsky B flat piano concerto had been rushed from the library and placed on the musician's stands...