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Word: shavings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idaho, when opportunity afforded"), and the dialogue echoes a tin-plated ear ("If you think I'm wonderful and if I think you're wonderful-it's all really very wonderful, isn't it?"). Instead of speaking their lines, characters "vouchsafe" them; they wash and shave in morning "ablutions." A well-adjusted cowpoke qualifies as "that worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Rides On--and On | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Asked by the Cuban Tourist Commission for ideas on how to stimulate Miami-to-Havana tourist traffic, a relative trickle ever since Fidel Castro and his supporters took power, Miami's Mayor Robert King High gave the whiskered Cubans some terse " advice: "Shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...found that at least five sons and two daughters in the third generation were narcoleptics. One first noted the trouble on guard duty in the Army, has since had many "near accidents" from dozing while driving. Another insisted that he was not really a dangerous driver because a "close shave" would wake him and he had not yet had a serious accident. One of the sons had been disciplined in the Army for sleeping on duty, became a truck driver (he kept the windows open even in winter to stay awake); he fell asleep twice during the Mayo interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Sleepy People | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Polished Gentleman. In Giugliano, Italy, Antonio Pollastro charged his two sons with kidnaping and abusive treatment after they dragged him outside his home, gave him an unrequested hot bath, shave and haircut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...disposal plants should give a healthy boost to a drugmaker whose diversification (Aralen, Novocain, Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder, Molle Shave Cream, Energine lighter and cleaning fluid, textile and printing dyes, etc.) has already carried it far beyond the drug field. As a result, income last year topped $200 million for the first time in Sterling's 59-year history, with profits of $19 million ($2.42 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Sterling Idea | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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