Word: waved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million dollars worth of ads during the past two years plugged a five-word question: WHICH TWIN HAS THE TONI? One twin, of course, had a $2 Toni wave at home while the other had an "expensive" professional...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the hair of both twins had been styled and set by a professional hairdresser, after one had given herself a home wave. Chicago's Toni Co., maker of home permanent wave kits, will restyle its advertising...
...those who have lost government jobs because of a Communist "economy" wave in administration, the Communists had coined a new euphemism. What Chinese used to call bluntly tsai yuan (cutting personnel) has become ching chien ("considered simplification" of office personnel...
After this short overture, the Communist plan of campaign went into full swing. The Reds' idea was to paralyze Finland through a carefully staggered wave of strikes. According to their meticulous timetable, the building workers' union-which like most other unions in Finland is infiltrated by Communists-was to strike the day before the Kemi blowup. Next day it was to be the dockers' turn, then the food workers' (including bakers and brewers). At intervals the woodworkers, truck drivers, textile workers and stonemasons were to follow...
Doubts & Difficulties. Scientists, however, grew jittery at what some called "unwarranted encouragement" for arthritis sufferers, and tried to calm the wave of optimism. The Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward C. Kendall, one of the researchers who first announced the cortisone treatment, said of the report: "Interesting, but I don't think that is the answer." In the "four or five years" before enough seeds could be grown, he said, "we expect to have cortisone available in much larger supply from other sources." In the Merck laboratories, the Strophanthus product, sarmentogenin (first isolated in 1915), had already been carefully...