Word: toothbrush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight of the first day of his imprisonment, Valencia felt a need to consult with the church, which had already given him open support (TIME. May 6). He decided to visit Cali's Auxiliary Bishop Miguel Angel Medina. Friends tried to stop him, but fiery Valencia, his toothbrush mustache bristling, shouted "I am the boss," and stalked out. Marching up to the lieutenant in command, he demanded to be taken to the bishop's palace. The bold move worked; in the course of an hour-long conversation. Monsignor Medina offered asylum in the palace, but Valencia decided...
Teams of WHO technicians are vaccinating Peruvian Indians, spraying Thai villages with DDT, training Pakistani girls in midwifery, teaching villagers in India to do a daily "twig-toothbrush" drill, using powdered charcoal as a dentifrice...
...hedge trimmer, a $115 chain saw for work on his trees, a $250 tractor to plow his garden and shovel snow from his driveway. By the time he is finished, he has as much as $2,000 invested in his new hobby, and he can build anything from a toothbrush rack to a ten-room house, and landscape the land...
...cruel technology. The unending onslaught of bigger and better devices for the Good Life has added to his wares such items as electric pencil sharpeners and hair-scratching devices. And on occasion, he may even sell a Modern Magic water closet, a miniature reducing machine or even a toothbrush with a plastic handle to hold the paste. Even now his display case bulges to twice his size, and the New Devices spell a certain doom...
...Fairy Tale" and "Fly Away." (One old favorite notably missing: "Svetlana's Breath," named in honor of Stalin's only daughter.) Some, like "Jubilee of the Red Army" ($12), came in delicate glass flacons. A children's set containing tooth paste and powder, soap and toothbrush cost $2.70 and sold well. Most expensive gift package: a "Golden Star" assortment of cosmetics, packed in a golden box with a red velvet lining. Price...