Word: shave
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...unkindest cut of all was left to the barbers. Atlanta's haircuts went from 85? to a dollar; Chicago's to $1.50 on Saturdays-with shaves at a firm 85?. A Chicago Saturday-night man could spend $2.35 for the legendary "shave & a haircut, two bits." Customers had their own recourse. Said a Kansas City barber, "It looks like they're saving up an extra quarter's worth of hair before they come in." Waitresses complained of smaller tips...
...Langer's voice was growing hoarse, and his face pale and haggard. By 5 o'clock he was in obvious distress. Humphrey, fresh and trim after a midnight shower and shave, sidled up to him. "I can stay until 6 o'clock," hissed Langer. "Go get some sleep...
...Russification of Czechoslovakia continued last week, when Czech soldiers were ordered to shave their heads in conformity with Red army style. One soldier complained that his girl "burst into tears" when he first appeared with shaved head. Prague's army newspaper Obrana Lidu quickly advised him to give up the girl, "because she evidently cares only for your hair and not that you are a defender of our people's democratic homeland...
When a lance corporal proclaimed, "I would rather go to prison than shave my head," the Communist organ Rovnost cautioned Czech soldiers to guard against whispering campaigns "which try to stir up rumors about alleged concentration camps in the barracks...
...Greenwich, Conn. (pop. 38,000), barbers posted a new price scale: shave and a haircut, two bucks. And rising costs wiped out another price landmark. In Philadelphia, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. upped its prices by 15? a case, thus forcing retailers to charge 6? for a bottle of Coke...