Word: waterproofer
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...become more formidable. Thousands of tons of U.S. equipment, from boots to grenade launchers, have arrived at air bases at Aguacate and Swan Island, off the Honduran coast. Each contra is now dressed in an olive-green uniform and carries a Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifle, a waterproof poncho, an extra pair of socks and 400 rounds of ammunition...
...Gland of the '80s)" reads the press release. "Mad Doctor Edward Pretorious' invention stimulates the pineal gland and causes it to protrude and take on a personality of its own -- much like your official From Beyond Pineal Gland Visor . . . Wear it anywhere: the ballpark, parties, the shower (it's waterproof...
...least an eyelash, in the running mascara battle between industry leaders Maybelline and Noxell, maker of the Cover Girl brand. The rivals are locked in a legal dispute over Noxell's claim that its new Cover Girl Clean Lash mascara is waterproof...
Maybelline contends that shower and swimming-pool tests of several hundred women conducted for it by a research laboratory showed that Clean Lash is not waterproof. Charging false advertising, Maybelline won a federal district court order halting shipments and ads for its rival's mascara. Last week Noxell persuaded an appeals court to issue a temporary stay of the lower court's order, and the company resumed its sales. Maybelline did not even blink before heading back to court for the next round...
Once they were brothers in arms, but that was in another time and another place, back when Julian Bond and John Lewis were in Selma together for the march to Montgomery, back when they drove the rural roads of the South together, registering voters in towns like Waterproof, La., and Belzoni, Miss. Now, though their paths cross almost every day, the two men barely speak. It has been that way since they sat down for lunch last autumn at a Marriott Hotel in Atlanta. "Well, Mr. Senator, what are you going to do?" Lewis asked his friend, the state senator...