Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue. The only other notable awards went to Czechoslovakia's The Shop on Main Street (best foreign-language film) and To Be Alive, the Johnson's Wax film first shown at the New York World's Fair (best short documentary). Bob Hope, rewarded with a gold medal for his long years as an outstanding entertainer, then declared: "This meeting of the Great Society stands adjourned...
...shadows begin to lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...
Timed-release decongestant medicines contain hundreds of small but visible pellets of gelatin-or wax-coated drugs in a single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...
Victor Charlie-at Plei Me Threw a hand grenade at we. So I caught it, in my palm, Threw it back, and he wax gone. Victor Charlie, at Plei Me, Thanks a lot, you s.o.b...
...mechanics of Pro Quarterback are simple. They involve cards, dice and a field on which the progress of the ball is marked with wax pencils. The game is best played with two to a side, one calling offense, the other defense. But the strategy is complex. The offensive quarterback picks a card from among five basic runs and five passes, calls it for either his strong or weak side. The defensive captain has three variations of the 4-3-4 defense (tight, deep, normal) and no fewer than six different blitzes. A roll of the dice then helps determine...