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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awful boomerang fish). Miss Piggy has a wandering eye, however, and if the week's guest star happens to be a good-looking man, she latches onto him. After dancing the stirring pas de deux from Swine Lake with Rudolph Nureyev, she stalked the poor fellow into a steam bath and drove him forth with his towel askew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...grueling as in a factory making any other kind of goods. To be sure that makeup will withstand long wear, Revlon sometimes requires a woman to sit for hours in a room where the temperature is 90° F. and the humidity 100%; windshield wipers have to clear away the steam from the windows so that analysts can peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...quilt, a cosmetologist goes to work, cleaning the skin with unscented makeup remover and lotion. Then a lubricant is applied with a small hot iron, which is a doll-sized version of the kitchen iron, to soften the pores. This "face ironing" is followed by a herbal or seaweed steam facial, manual and deep-pore cleansing, a tightening mask and a makeup consultation. More and more men are showing up in skin-treatment centers too: 10% of Arpel's customers and 20% of Klinger's are men, while both Aida Grey and the Beverly Hills Neiman-Marcus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Newest Skin Game | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Harvard began construction of the plant in the Mission Hill-Brookline area of Boston in November 1976. The University has already spent more than $50 million on the project, which it hopes will provide steam, electricity and chilled water to the Medical School and Harvard-affiliated hospitals at an annual savings of $2 million...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Power Plant Hearings Close; Decision Expected in January | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

Workers at the Control Center now stop injecting steam into the heating tank at midnight. "We begin then with a full tank (of hot water) and how far it goes depends on how many people take showers before 5 a.m." Lawton said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Early Morning Hot Water Cut To Save Energy | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

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