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Thirty-six seconds left, Brandeis up 8-7 in bouts, Harvard leading the last bout 4-1, the meet tied 55-55 in touches. Thirty seconds left, 25...20...15...10.... Cooper beats Mejias's blade down, lunges forward, touches her in the underarm. Harvard takes the match by one touch, the Harvard fencers stream onto the strip cheering frantically, joy abounds...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Nick Brandeis by Single Touch | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

...alcohol and marijuana. He is against anything but group dating until 16 or 17 and, in most cases, anything "beyond kissing and embracing" if there is no "commitment to marriage." Dirty clothes and messy rooms are inexcusable and represent nothing more than "nose-thumbing" at parents. Daily showers and underarm deodorants are important, as are politeness and "getting chores done before your parents have to prod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Spock on Teens | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

Bidette's quarter-page black and white ad shows a naked young woman hugging her knees and says, "Deal with a woman's body like a woman. For a woman," it continues, "underarm protection is not enough. There's the problem of vaginal odor. A very personal problem...

Author: By Joanna Knobler, | Title: It's Not That You Have Bad Breath... | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...women-that they don't accept their own sexuality sufficiently and that's why they want to mask the odors identified with it. I mean that's possible. " But Miss Prag pointed out that this is an odor-conscious society and that everyone, not just anxiety-ridden women, wears underarm deodorant...

Author: By Joanna Knobler, | Title: It's Not That You Have Bad Breath... | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

There were other steady-eyed observers who also described correctly the buboes, or underarm swellings, that told of death in five or six days, and the congested lungs of the even deadlier pneumonic form of the plague that killed within two or three days. Gethin's lament is remarkable because it makes the pain and terror vivid 600 years later. The authors of these two books on the Black Death mention the consistently abstract, numb quality of most contemporary chronicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fourth Horseman | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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