Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time to Shave. That twist was enough to do it. The same day Alcoa President John D. Harper hurried from Pittsburgh to McNamara's mammoth third-floor office in the Pentagon's guarded E ring, began negotiating for a truce. Harper was back in the Pentagon the next day, too, and he and McNamara also spoke several times by telephone. At 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Harper phoned McNamara from Pittsburgh to surrender: Alcoa would cancel its price boosts. Lest the company change its mind overnight, McNamara called in newsmen for a 9:45 conference, acting so quickly...
...without critics. As Reedy warned him, "This is one job where you can't make everybody happy." Says one reporter: "He's Mr. Snow in my book." There is an "icy piety" about him, complains another. Says a third, with grudging admiration: "He can shave the truth until it is as thin as a razor blade. Nevertheless, it is the truth...
...Female hair supposedly has an erotic effect on men, so pious Orthodox wives traditionally shave their heads and wear kerchiefs or wigs...
...both her prestige and power. Overruling two lower-court decisions, the Supreme Court held that the FTC acted correctly when, in 1962, it ordered Colgate-Palmolive and the Ted Bates ad agency to stop using a mock-up of Plexiglas and sand to demonstrate on TV that Palmolive Rapid Shave could make it easy to "shave" sandpaper. From now on, the FTC will be in a position to ban any deceptive mock-ups that advertisers try to use to "prove" their claims...
...Hell with It." It began in West Berlin in July 1957, after Airman Second Class Thompson, then 22, had been chewed out by his commanding officer because he needed a shave. That night Thompson drowned his resentment in cognac, brooded about his job as a clerk in the Office of Special Investigation at Berlin's Tempelhof Air Base. "You lived in a state of terror," he recalled. "Everyone in our office was watching someone. We all watched each other...