Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confident of victory that he held the most honest election in South Korea's history. The result was almost disastrous; he squeaked in with only 43% of the total vote. Thereafter, Park's Democratic-Republican Party vowed never again to risk such a close shave. Last week, as South Korea elected a new National Assembly, things were a lot closer to normal...
...disregard the effete East, otherwise known as the Fight Fiercelies-the Ivy League, the Yankee Conference, the Middle Atlantic Conference. Concentrate on the Big Five: Army, Navy, Pitt, Penn State and Syracuse. No rep-tie types these-coal miners' sons from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey farmers, shave-skull cadets. The Big Five are technically independents, but they are linked together just as any conference is-by bands of mutual geography and mutual jealousy. And if they were a conference, it would clearly be the best...
Third essential component of Buddhism is the vast body of monks and nuns called the sangha. In addition to celibacy and vegetarian nonviolence, monks practice poverty; traditionally the only possessions permitted are robes, a begging bowl for food, a needle, prayer beads, a razor (to shave the head once a fortnight), and a filter to remove bugs from the drinking water so as not to kill them...
...magazine. From earnings, DM has built a $175,000 laboratory at Stuttgart, where a staff of 20, including engineers, chemist, industrial designer and micro-photographer, test everything from toothbrushes to typewriters. DM's editorial staff of 20 reports two test results weekly, last week rated after-shave lotions and reported German skindiving masks and fins inferior to French and Italian...
...their pains, federal prisoners get compensation ranging from a pack of cigarettes up to $25 in cash. If a volunteer's lot is particularly onerous or carries some risk of major discomfort, the Bureau of Prisons may give him "meritorious good time credits," which shave a few days off his sentence...