Word: bleach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because...
...Friday nights Doc Johnson had been rehearsing his boys. Tonight's session was for last-minute touching up and instructions. "Bleach those leggings out," Doc directed. "Be sure they are white. I'll check up sure as hell and if they aren't right you won't get in the parade...
...winter when he helped to write FCC's now-famous "Blue Book," which demanded that radio serve the public first, advertisers second-or stop broadcasting. Despite the storm the "Blue Book" raised, Denny stands by it. He told broadcasters at their Chicago convention last October, "We will not bleach...
Examples of studio thoroughness: a dramatic academy, manned by five instructors, sweated to teach Smoky's cast of 40-odd horses how to register basic emotions for the camera (no tricks); the star's glossy black hide, which began to bleach in spots after several weeks on location in the Utah sun, had to be touched up periodically with walnut stain makeup...
...Convert the gas into useful chemical compounds, such as bleach or antiseptics? (Much too expensive...