Word: dunking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shave commercial cost Mennen more than $10,000. lasts 60 seconds, was conceived by copywriters at Manhattan's Grey Advertising Agency. Before giving the idea the up thumb last autumn, Grey executives sent out for a 30-gallon aquarium, ordered one of the copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could not see the need...