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shay ving

  • n  the act of removing hair with a razor
  • n  a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
  • n  the act of brushing against while passing
  • v  remove body hair with a razor
  • v  cut closely
  • v  cut the price of
  • v  cut or remove with or as if with a plane
  • v  make shavings of or reduce to shavings
  • v  touch the surface of lightly

  • Even under the direst of conditions Filkins is alive to novelistic detail: the popping sound of a 105 mm cannon, like "a machine that served tennis balls"; a barber shaving the .
  • The crime, a chilling execution carried out in a typical suburban school allegedly by a boy who probably hasn't started shaving has shocked Oxnard and captured the .
  • What does shading a rule have to do with shaving a point? "For at least 20 years now, recruiting practices in college basketball have been completely corrupt," says Bob Cousy .
News & Articles

  • Grooming your man with Men’s Health award-winning picks
    If your Dad’s morning routine hasn’t evolved beyond shaving with a disposable razor and washing up with a bar of soap, it’s time you intervened! And there’s no better time than Father’s Day to give him the best grooming gadgets …
    June 17, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York
  • Point-shaving trial involving UT gets reset
    DETROIT — A federal judge in Detroit again has rescheduled the trial date for four remaining defendants in a University of Toledo point-shaving case.
    June 16, 2013 - The Toledo Blade
  • New trial date in UT point shaving case
    A Detroit federal judge again has reset the trial date for four remaining defendants in a University of Toledo point-shaving case.
    June 15, 2013 - Toledo News Now
Quotes

  • Tiger Wood in International Herald Tribune
    I started (shaving) a little late. My stubble didn't quite grow in,said Woods, his face red and windburnt from a sandstorm earlier in the day. "My dad showed me how to do it and I tried to do it just like him. I got foam all over the...
  • Joan Capdevila in Reuters
    Spanish left back Joan Capdevila told reporters: "It was time a defender scored a goal. I'm all for him shaving his head if we win the World Cup. If we win I'm going to try (to convince him)."
  • Pat Riley in SI.com
    Is it a dark day? I think there's been a lot of dark days. You go back to the Black Sox scandal. There's always been those moments. You go back to the early '50s when college basketball was absolutely rife with point-shaving guys,Miami Heat...

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