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Word: wax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks before his death and the fall of the Third Reich. Each volume contains from 75 to 100 pages, written in black ink, many bearing Hitler's signature at the bottom. Upon completion, each diary was wrapped with a thin red cord and sealed with a red wax imprint of the swastika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Black Ink and Red Wax Swastikas | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...over when her time ended so as not to lose an extra bill or two that had landed on her back. Marshall escorted her out of the booth and then, just like on any other game show, took a break for a commercial that advertised oven cleaner or floor wax. But the Cleveland woman's story and her face suggested that all this wasn't just a game...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Happiness Hype | 4/26/1983 | See Source »

...does have psychological power. A man places the thing just on top of his brain, and the one takes emanations from the other. The ancient Egyptians would go to parties in an ornamental cone of perfumed wax. The wax would melt down onto the wearer as the party heated up. The hat responded to the brain's temperature. A hat can be revealing, intimate. It can also be dangerous: no other article of clothing has the potential to make a man look so ridiculous. There is the terror of the whisper: Why does he wear that silly little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Serious Hats | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...chicken." Then he tasted the soup and added, "Yes, that is chicken. It might have walked through the water once." Lipton executives probably winced, but the tongue-in-cheek salesmanship worked. Whatever Godfrey sold, he spoofed; and whatever he spoofed, lipstick or lotion, floor wax or ice cream, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Barefoot Voice | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...shoes and ships and sealing wax...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: An Unfinished Agenda | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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