Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precious stone looks better in a ring than on a balance sheet...
...Edie Sedgwick? She was a strikingly pretty young woman with a genius for self-destruction. Her pedigree and her rap sheet conspire to prove that truth can be as compelling as the most lurid novel: daughter of a distinguished, disturbed New England family; evanescent superstar of Andy Warhol's underground movies; blitzed-out druggie; a careless suicide at 28. The glamour, the abuse, the aristocracy of decadence-my dear, it's just too delicious...
...already practiced with our Nel-Spot pistols, blasting away from about 30 yds. at a large sheet of plywood. The Nel-Spots are as big and heavy as .45 automatics, and just as deadly looking, although actually they are not a great deal more dangerous than water pistols. They use a carbon-dioxide propellant cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from...
...heaviest baseball ever, a shotput covered with a leather hide. Hanging on a book opposite the front door is a set of 1940s catcher's gear below it is a wooden club emblazoned "Louisville Bat Co." manufactured years before the company changed its named to "Louisville Slugger." Sheet music of various baseball songs including four of the five original copies of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," cover the walls...
...women using Clairol's Nice 'n Easy hair-coloring kits want to get some expert guidance on exactly how much tint to apply, free advice is as close at hand as the nearest telephone. They simply call up the toll-free 800 number listed on an instruction sheet in the package and ask. Clairol is one of a growing list of firms that use AT&T's system of toll-free 800 numbers to foster good consumer relations. Says Jack Shor, vice president for public relations at the New York-based hair care, cosmetics and beauty appliances...