Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call the disorder pica (rhymes with Micah), from the Latin for magpie. But whereas the magpie merely collects assorted, useless objects, the pica victim eats them. Favorite items are newspapers, toilet and handkerchief tissues, clay and sand, wood, cigarettes and butts, used matches, laundry starch, crayons, grass and leaves, soap, aluminum foil-and even bugs. One girl of 14 ate several pages of newspaper every day, and found the classified ads especially tasty...
...pale ochre; the massive Corinthian columns of the Madeleine glow a soft pink; the Louvre no longer tattles of neglect. Years of recorded tourist history ("Ronald loves Irma," "Vincenza e Giorgio," "Stan from Council Bluffs. 82nd Airborne. 1945"). scribbled in the stubborn grime, is being erased by a soap that removes dirt but leaves a protective mineral covering on the stone. More than 2.300 buildings and monuments have been washed...
...example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest he be angry." Job's picturesque "If I wash myself with snow water" becomes the prosaic "If I wash myself with soap," on the ground that snow water has no extra-special cleaning power. Until the scholars can think of a better word for it, Miriam's leprosy (in Numbers 12:10) will become "a disease of the skin"; what she really had, says Driver, is psoriasis...
Died. David Ford Bond, 57, leathery-voiced NBC newscaster who from 1929 to 1952 proved one of the most versatile voices in the business, announcing everything from soap operas (Just Plain Bill) to the World Series, a lifelong Republican who managed the campaign radio and TV arrangements for Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952; of a heart attack; in St. Croix, Virgin Islands...
...Jewel Tea and Antwerp's Grand Bazar company have combined to open eleven supermarkets in the past two years, and last fortnight announced plans to open four more. Not only do these Belgian markets dramatically undersell corner grocers (examples: 5? v. 8? for a cake of soap. 52? v. 70? for a pound of cheese), but they have added a new verb to the Flemish language. It is superen, and it means to take a social hour in the supermarket, usually at night and with the family, piloting a pushcart among mountains of cans and valleys of prepacked meats...