Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston city water, the researchers established: that contains enough chlorine to kill them off. And ice made from this water under proper conditions is equally safe. The trouble originates right in the hospitals. Most of them have carafes with narrow necks, so they cannot be properly cleaned without a brush-and not a single bottle brush was found. Most carafes are made of materials that will not stand sterilization by heat, and no hospital specified disinfection as part of the cleaning routine. In one-third of the hospitals the carafes were "cleaned" in the utility room -along with basins, bedpans...
Verbal Report. Bender proved equally diligent at wielding a whitewash brush. Breaking an understanding with the other two commission members-a Detroit judge and a Washington lawyer-Bender went ahead on his own, using an investigative method roughly comparable to trying to solve a murder case by going to an open window and yelling, "Is anybody out there guilty?" To Teamster officials around the country-Hoffa's own men-Bender sent a form letter asking for information about racketeering, if any. Back came brief, negative replies. That was that. Without even bothering to draft a written report, Bender informed...
...light, it will be pushed farther and farther from the sun in wider and wider orbits. Eventually it will reach the orbits of Mars or the outer planets and can take a look at them. A fragile space sailer could not land on any planet; even a brush with the fringe of an atmosphere would destroy the sail. But it could be maneuvered to approach smaller bodies in space that have no atmosphere...
Until the day they left, the G.I.s kept visiting the Umekis with presents-bacon, shaving cream, hair oil. Miyoshi put the hair oil on her face and tried to brush her teeth with the shaving cream, but she knew a gift when...
...proper glory. The Infanta is only shadowily visible through the darkly luminous galleries of the Prado. Explains Dali, sighting along the points of his caliper-style mustache: "The new was and is through Velásquez. Abstract expressionism is in the details of Velásquez, in the brush strokes...