Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Ball added a cogent argument: "What the Senator from Florida proposes is that we strip ourselves of the only real military power we still possess, the atomic bomb, and then confer with Russia about future security and peace. We might enter such a conference with clean hands, but . . . we would enter it committed in advance by our own impotence to a policy of appeasement...
...Hoss. Scouts from 15 of the 16 big-league teams had knocked on the door of Third Baseman Hoss Hatton's home in Beaumont, Tex. He is 23, has legs like a piano and arms like a buggy-whip, and specializes in line drives that often go clean out of the park. In four years at the University of Texas and two with an Army team, he had hit into but one double play...
...shrunken body, doctors gave him large amounts of vitamin B complex, beef essence, apple pulp, plasma. Sulfa drugs and penicillin helped clean out the small army of virulent germs. Now Thin-Man Goddard has pushed his weight up to 121 Ibs. (normal: 156), and can walk a little. In two or three months, perhaps, he may leave the hospital...
Best and most revealing picture was The Artist Looks at Nature (lent by Chicago's Art Institute-see cut), which showed Sheeler in the daylight drawing a nighttime interior. The surrounding spring landscape was as neat and clean as a Quaker meetinghouse...
Down the Drain. In Mexico City, the Supreme Court made a clean break with the Treasury, revoked a lucrative luxury tax by ruling: bathtubs are common necessities...