Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordnance "did not want to issue any of the clean ammunition, let it out and get dirty, have to take it back in later on and renovate it." General Short supported Ordnance in this tidy attitude. As a result, said Burgin, it would take "from a few minutes to six hours before all the guns could be got in position and firing." On the morning of Dec. 7 only half the anti-aircraft guns had ammunition at hand...
...Krishna never did. Later their father joined them for a vacation, and the four accepted a Russian invitation to visit Moscow for the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Revolution. There they were especially impressed by the clean, pleasant interior of a prison...
Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. told their 150,000 employes in 16 plants to go home on V-J day and stay there-until the Government comes clean. At the Army ordnance plant operated by the U.S. Cartridge Co. in St. Louis, one official said: "We'll just keep going until the Army tells us to stop...
Said Digger Higgins: "It's very simple, really. You just push down on this plumber's helper, and up come the clams, all clean...
...words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked library, swim in t_e river...