Word: lipsticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lipstick & Minesweepers. Whatever the local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda...
...Soviet citizens-no one can tell how many-who operate private businesses for private profit, often dodging the police for years before they are caught. Operators of two of the cleverest syndicates were in the hands of the law last week, charged with running a textile empire and lipstick plant with profits that ran into the millions...
High living by confederates also tipped police to the family-operated lipstick factory of Nikolai Kotlyar, who converted the basement of a house in the Moscow district of Ostankino into a miniature plant. Helped by wife, daughter and nephew, Kotlyar installed lipstick molds, mixed batter identical to the popular Ausma brand manufactured in Riga. Soon he persuaded Ausma officials-for a price-that competition was wasteful, and began importing the authentic recipes and lipstick tubes direct from the maker. When Kotlyar was nabbed, he had invested his lipstick loot in precious gems, gold and state bonds worth more than...
...current show, it is his enviable duty to plant long-lasting kisses on the ingenue, Bonnie Scott, but he recently turned on her with a four-letter snarl and added: "Blot your lipstick or I'll smear it all over your face." And at one final curtain, as the cast soaked up the downpour of applause, Morse turned and remarked to one and all (including 60-year old Co-Star Rudy Vallee): "Well, thev liked...
...certain they would battle against any movement to overthrow it. They know nothing else, and to them the term 'capitalism' spells depravity and damnation." They fight only to buy more books, to write about day to day problems rather than about the romance of building Socialism, and to wear lipstick and play jazz...