Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matchmaker. The Shoda family gave thought to Michiko's future, and there is evidence that she formally met selected prospects at a miai, or a meeting arranged with a view to a possible match. One candidate is said to have been the son of a soap-company president; reportedly he backed away, declaring Michiko's personality "too cold." Michiko seems to have been drawn to a Japanese diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen...
...Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade, once cracked: "All this business of ffrr and FDS is just slogans, like 'It Floats,' for Ivory soap. Do you know what...
...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...
...great leap was .accompanied by a mighty fumble. Last month, despite a claimed 102% increase in staple food crops, the grain ration was cut in China's cities and the lowly cabbage was put on the ration list for the first time. Since then, laundry soap has been added to the list and the monthly sugar ration has been slashed to slightly more than half a pound per person. In the great port of Canton there is a shortage of fish; in Shanghai, meat is all but unobtainable...
With a few exceptions like La Bibbia, Italy's fumetti are sentimental soap-opera plots, as pure as they are lathery. Successively framed by the camera, the young lovers march inexorably toward an impassive clinch. Sex, violence and nudity are fumetti taboos, partly in concession to a Roman Catholic women's association, which charged in 1951 that the magazines were corrupting Italian youth. Bosoms are thoroughly draped, although now and then a generously endowed film star, like Marisa Allasio, may present problems...