Word: shaving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maine, seeking fast pre-vacation times, decided beforehand that everyone on their team would shave (everything below their necks and outside their suits) for the meet...
...working hours extended from early in the morning until well into the night. Some Wall Street firms sent their employees over to the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights for a few hours' sleep, then brought them back early the next morning. Barbers were brought in to shave them at their desks. "We were going all the time," says Fowler. "The older fellows used to work until 8 or 9 o'clock at night and then go to some speakeasy for drinks. They lived fast." Some also spent some time in nearby Trinity Church, where they prayed...
...engine (usually used to power an electric generator) into a British Austin Mini, added an electronic microprocessor to fine-tune the motor while it is running and hooked up a hydraulic accumulator to store unused energy. The Colorado State team has used graphite and Kevlar in the frame to shave 600 Ibs. from an already light Audi. The name of this entry is Scab I, for "Screw the Arab bastards," the team cheerfully proclaims...
Psychologist Michael Russell thinks the synchronizing factor is odor. In an experiment at San Francisco State University, Russell relied on a colleague named Genevieve, who had a regular 28-day cycle, did not shave under her arms and never used deodorant. He dabbed what he delicately called "Essence of Genevieve" on the lips of five female volunteers three times a week. After four months, he found that the volunteers converged from an average of 9.3 days apart in their cycles to 3.4 days, and four of the women synchronized to within one day of Genevieve's cycle. A control...
...years after Lyndon Baines Johnson's death, Widow Lady Bird, 66, has decided to sell 2,353 acres that the 36th President bought to enlarge the ranch, now a national historic site, where he lies buried. "I'm trying to shave off as many obligations, duties and responsibilities as I can," explains the former First Lady. She will continue to enjoy the L.BJ. Ranch on the Pedernales River to which she first came as a bride in 1934. Still, the territory to be sold was added with "much love and thrill and happiness and adventure." In two great...