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Word: shavings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberated woman. I wear a bra. I shave my legs, I wear mascara. I set my hair twice a week and have been known to use hairspray. I read Cosmopolitan magazine avidly and join World of Beauty clubs without giving much thought to their sociological significance. I use DippityDo hair-setting gel, Cover Girl medicated makeup, Deep Magic dry skin conditioner, and generally should be a source of great satisfaction to the American manufacturer...

Author: By Joanna Knobler, | Title: It's Not That You Have Bad Breath... | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...youth, jailed for loitering, spent nine days in solitary confinement recently when he refused to shave off his beard and cut his hair. Another youth's 60-day sentence for a minor driving infraction was suspended after he agreed to get a haircut as ordered by the judge -a former barber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlanta: The Great Hippie Hunt | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

What the public is watching is gags lifted from tales as old as the Arkansas Traveller (ca. 1860) but spliced together with production as new as Laugh-In. On Hee Haw, the graffiti adorn not bikini-clad boogaloo dancers but Burma-Shave signs, and the routines occur not at cocktail parties but in cornfields. That is their natural habitat. One of the company announces, "I'm a farmer in a candy factory." "Whaddaya do?" asks a chorus of rural voices. "I milk chocolate." In another rib cracker, the straight man wonders: "Hey, Junior, how come I saw you eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Corn Is Still Green | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

William Esty Co. created Noxzema shave cream's famous TV ad, in which Gunilla Knutson whispers "Take it off, take it all off." Soon after that caught on, Young & Rubicam hired an actress with a throaty voice, just like Gunilla's, to implore, "Put it on, put it all on" -an appeal for customers to buy Plymouths and load them with all manner of optional equipment. Eagle Shirtmakers' color-naming contest of five years ago-in which the winning entries included Foreseeable Fuchsia, God's Little Ochre and Hot Chestnut-was revived this spring by Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Copycats | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...vicinity of the moon, the return flight of Apollo 10 last week could not have been smoother. On the day before splashdown, the astronauts chalked up a space first. Stafford explained to ground controllers that the crew was about to conduct "scientific experiment Sugar Hotel Alpha Victor Echo"-or SHAVE. NASA had spent $5,000 trying unsuccessfully to perfect a small electric razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments in the weightless environment of the spacecraft. The Apollo 10 astronauts had a simpler solution. They broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Uncluttered Path to the Moon | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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