Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liked to spend weekends drinking and gambling himself, aboard a craft known as the "Bum Boat," an ancient stern-wheeler converted into a houseboat. When the City Council decided one December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...
...supersalesman in the pulpit to work on. . . . We don't like the hale & hearty traveling salesman's greeting." But at the other evil extreme is the cold-shoulder church. "There must be no distracting influences [from the service]. A good usher asks himself: 'Is the sidewalk clean? Are the steps clear of snow and ice? Are the lights too bright? . . . How is the heat?' Heat makes or mars a service. If we see somebody nodding, we check the heat before we check the preacher...
With breathless enthusiasm, the newscasters announced that the eight-day meeting of the Big Three in the 100-room Crimean castle of Livadia had ended. (They had a clean beat, for many an afternoon newspaper had suspended publication because of the holiday...
...taut, enervating pressures of the camp, the internees' characters changed, warped, withered and, in some cases, held firm. Talkative, irrepressible Dodie Morrison was hospitalized with hemorrhages, but her almost childish faith in her soldier husband sustained her courage ("We can't lose. He is so strong and clean and brave"). Katharine Forbes, "frightened but calm," kept busy as a doctor's assistant, trying to hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally...
...points if he wanted the favorite, got only six points if he wanted the underdog-but when the final score was "in the middle" (seven points difference), as five of this winter's 26 games in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden had ended, the bookies made a clean sweep of all bets. Any man with a mind to do some fixing could see the potential profits in such a setup...