Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shabbiness of their dress; there isn't a firm trouser crease or an even hemline. There is only a hushed attentiveness, as their eyes move studyingly from the speaker to the faces of their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum floor beneath their feet is spick & span because this group has nothing with which to litter...
...takes little effort or risk," he wrote, "to wax indignant or to write platitudes about remote subjects. It is not so easy to live up to the highest ethics and responsibilities of a newspaper in the public affairs of its own home community. ... It is a newspaper's duty to show the bad so that the people can correct it, and the good so that it may be encouraged. ... Is this the kind of newspaper you want...
Chances are you'll never glimpse a boiled shirt on local ski slopes, but 3-minute sweatpants, dunked in a pot of wax and knife-edged beneath a mattress, may double as ski pants for the well-dressed fan of the near future...
...comes from the sports pages of a national womens' magazine, which tells the saga of Mrs. X., a homebody who whips up her own ski clothes. Mrs. X. combs department store counters for bolts of bizarrely-colored and woven fabrics, waterproofs them by browing them in a potion of wax, and tailors her trousers to size...
...stave off slow strangulation, "the best in the business" began cutting itself into wax last year. Lately, however, their vanguard in the commercial recording field. The Ivy League Band Album, has begun to lose ground. Dartmouth, with recording plans of its own in progress, has cut the Crimson transcriptions from its campus, and, Princeton, for no apparent reason, seems to be following suit...