Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee also does not mention population. It completely begs the question of long-term planning (which occupied much space in its first-rate predecessor, the Draper Report) with a warning against the over-use of mathematical economic models, and hence raises not an eyebrow at the frustrating Congressional practice of reapproprating aid funds each year. The notion that the Congress itself--by making it impossible for field administrators to promise funds in bargaining for development contracts--contributes to A.I.D.'s inefficiency, has never occurred to the Clay Committee...
Verses like this, which today would hardly cause a raised eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...
...eyebrow-raising editorial two months ago, the Jesuit weekly America warned "our Jewish friends" that their opposition to religious practices in public schools might lead to "an outbreak of anti-Semitism.'' America's reward was a torrent of criticism from all segments of U.S. Jewry. Now some leading Jewish intellectuals are having second thoughts about the questions America raised...
...hair, though thin, had to be stiff. Dr. Gallagher tried hair from the heads of Orientals. No good. He tried coarse eyebrow hairs. Not much better. Then he found that hog's hair was scaly enough to cause clotting, and stiff enough to be fired from the gun. So is hair from a horse's tail...
While still in high school, the sisters started interviewing movie stars for community papers. They got onto the glamour gimmick when they visited their first movie studio. The heat caused their hastily made eyebrows to run (they have been sprucing up with cosmetics since pubescence), and the makeup director generously lectured them on the proper use of eyebrow pencil. "Were we embarrassed!" recalls Reba, re-creating her blush. But next day they wrote up the incident in their column and were deluged with letters asking for more tips...