Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times's station WQXR is one of the few gentle havens in radio's jingle-jangle jungle. No giveaways, soap operas, rock'n'roll or singing commercials mar its well-mannered purr of good music, mostly classical. But as WQXR reaped prestige, it also reaped advertisers-so many, in fact, that its listeners began to complain. One of the complainants: Listener No. 1, Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Upshot: this season WQXR has invoked what it believes to be the first commercial cutback in broadcasting history, is eliminating all one-minute spots following sponsored programs...
While the characters sometimes perform with the bedlam logic of a Marx Brothers film, their creator is still the only master of Bemelmanship-the art of not blowing a shimmering literary soap bubble past its bursting point...
...Minor wounds with slight bleeding should be washed with cool water and soap. Formerly, washing was discouraged for fear of infection...
...Viewers. It was the first time that a Secretary of the Army and a Chief of Staff had ever looked directly at troops in action over a field commander's shoulder 900 miles away. They shared the view with millions who, between the humdrum of quiz shows and soap operas, watched the paratroopers effect the historic entry of nine Negro students into the Little Rock school. Viewers also saw the troops double-timing to round up sullen riffraff, heard white students uttering words of hatred-and tolerance. TV news directors broke into network programs at will that day, eleven...
...found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn't pay for the bleach because I didn't want my friends to know I bleach my hair...