Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace. In Seattle, evidence of the expanding labor market appeared in a Post-Intelligencer ad: HELP WANTED, MALE-REFINED, RELIABLE GENTLEMAN TO CLEAN TOILETS...
...went up to bed. A nice soft bed with clean sheets. A lovely large room with a private bath and a latrine all my very own. Here, at least, I was the equal of anybody. But not even in bed could I lose the past years; the damned bed was too soft. I tossed around all night. I had slept better on cots...
Some Koreans would have welcomed chaos, they were so impatient to get the slate wiped clean for independence. They were bound to be disillusioned by American insistence on retaining the forms of government, and by the Army's slow-motion progress. That is passing. Koreans have replaced almost all the hated Japanese police, and those who remain (as sources of information) are kept out of sight...
...Young Henry would not go it alone. His mother, who had quietly used her influence in company affairs to end Bennett's reign, would certainly help. It was no secret that she had long opposed many a Bennett policy, particularly on la bor. Now, with the slate swept clean, a new start would be made. To the new board of strategy, Young Henry named...
...enter a temple, good-standing Mormons must be "morally clean," accept doctrines and sustain authorities of the church, have no sympathy with new-rule-breaking polygamists. Anybody may go into a not-so-holy Mormon tabernacle or church...