Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale even in late 1970: portable hair dryers, electric shavers and cans of spray paint. At GUM, the famous department store on Red Square, the selection of clothing has expanded, though the prices remain high. The store even stocks such exotic merchandise as $30 wigs, spear guns, flippers and skin-diving masks. GUM's hottest item: "Charm" hair spray, selling for one ruble ($1.46), per aerosol...
...Occasionally a jovial supporter will cry out "Give 'em hell, Hubert!" particularly when Humphrey compares himself with Harry Truman. Sometimes a few young people show up at Humphrey rallies carrying McGovern banners. They usually kibitz, with shouts of "What about the war, Humphrey?" But Humphrey has a thick skin. Always the tireless campaigner, he usually tries to pump every hand in sight. At a Chicano rally in East Los Angeles, he vigorously attempted to shake hands with members of the band -while they were still in the process of playing...
After so much publicity. Schmidt was apparently not willing to countermand his concessions directly. Nonetheless, long-haired soldiers last week were reluctantly snipping off their locks in response to yet another Defense Ministry order. On the hygienic pretext that excessive hair length could lead to parasites or skin diseases. Schmidt ruled that henceforth no soldier's hair could reach below his collar...
...aside some of my previous conclusions. I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed, while praying to the same God, with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. We were truly the same brothers, because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude...
AFTER BOTH men had their interviews, the citizens' panel expressed its preference for Peterson on May 13, but Owens then reneged on his promise. Either he does not really want a new City Manager, or he only wants one with a black skin. Even if, as Owens contends, Johnson does have a better record, Owens should fulfill the promises he made last fall and this spring, and he should abide by the outcome of the citizen participation process, joining with his liberal colleagues in making Peterson the new City Manager of Cambridge...