Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Sealing Sugar Bag. To keep brown sugar from drying out and hardening, Godchaux Sugars Inc., New Orleans, has developed a new wax-and-paper lining which acts as a self-sealing package. An inner layer of flexible wax plugs any cracks in the liner, seals in the moisture. Price...
Absolute Standard. In Chicago, suing or divorce, Edward Babacz, 35, testified hat his wife Josephine, 27, "makes me do he dishes, the cooking, the laundry, the shopping, care for the children and wax the floors. If they don't shine as they do in TV commercials, then she makes me do them over again...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-94) Doctor and author (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table): 1KNOW I might have made an indifferent lawyer-and I think I may make a tolerable physician-I did not like the one, and I do like the other ... If you would wax thin and savage, like a half-starved spider-be a lawyer; if you would go off like an opium eater in love with your starry delusions-be a doctor." A. J. CRONIN
...would Servan-Schreiber go to his office next day? Editor Servan-Schreiber, at 30 the wonder boy of French journalism, replied that he would be there at 8 a.m. as usual. Next day when he arrived at the office he found the doors closed tight and sealed with official wax. The government had seized the current issue of his weekly and temporarily closed the office. The charge: "ministers or generals were divulging secrets of national defense" concerning Indo-China, which L'Express had printed...
...arrangement of black and grey rectangles. He uses color sparingly, feels that his black ink "is very colorful." Sometimes he brushes his prints with ink, as in Man and Celestial, a simple arrangement of printed forms and two painted crescents that seems to radiate reverence. He also works with wax, sometimes draws in ink with a chopstick, even uses a dish mop of cellulose sponge...