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Word: waxed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just what I had been needing all along." In the mid-'40s he suffers fron a mental crackup. His prescription for recovery: "Drink dry sherry in small amounts, spend most of your time with hand tools at a bench, and play old records till there is no wax left in the grooves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tongue and Groove | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...veritable art, the correct choice of wax depends on two factors: one, the history of the snow (has it melted and refrozen?), and two, the water content of the snow...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Briefly, the colder the snow, and the more recent the last snowfall, the more "tooth" the crystals have and the harder the wax you should use. In contrast, older snow and higher temperatures demand a softer wax...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...hard waxes generally come in small foil cans while the soft waxes, or "klister" in Swedish, come in tubes, like toothpaste. (The hardness of a wax is determined by the proportion of wax to resin, and the klister is almost entirely resin...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...waxing chart above is a demonstration of how snow conditions and temperature combine to determine the optimum wax...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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