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Word: shave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Pentagon a gulf-crisis bonus. The budget that was approved last week cut only $18 billion in defense appropriations, vs. the $24 billion favored by the House as recently as September. Still, the $288 billion funding represents an 8.5% drop from the last fiscal year's spending and may shave 25% from projected defense outlays over the next five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stealth Peace Dividend | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Alternative Religion. Join the Hare Krishna movement. To fit in, you need only a pink rayon robe and a long shock of hair on the back of your head, which is not a problem with my baldness pattern. They shave the rest of your head and everyone's happy. A bonus is the swell performance opportunities in front of the Coop on Saturday nights (I want the tambourine) and the "delicious 10-course vegetarian feasts" advertised on the little leaflets they hand...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Hair Today. . . | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

...Edgehill Newport hospital, Four Winds hospital and the emergency room of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, to which she was rushed after ingesting ^ rubbing alcohol. By the time the book was nearly finished, so was Kitty; home for Christmas in 1989, she was drinking nail polish remover, after-shave, hair spray, anything she could get her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Life, Private Trouble | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...people I'm willing to be confrontational with because they're the people I need to educate the most," Ting says. "I need to show them that feminists do care about what they wear, that feminists don't automatically hate all men and that feminists do shave their legs...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Women's Studies 'First Band Of Concentrators Remembers Trials, Joys in the Field | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

...1920s, when Hemingway used to sit and write stories in the Closerie des Lilas, which had been a lilac-shaded country tavern during the 17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund, and Hemingway, like the friendly red lampshades, has become part of the decor: a brass plate on the bar marks his presence, and his face ornaments the menu, which includes a rumsteak au poivre Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: The Great Cafes of Paris | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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