Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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English in Clean Alley. Alexei is fastidious, ascetic and persistently optimistic. He lives in monastic simplicity at the Patriarchate on Chisty Pereulok (clean alley), in a ground-floor room filled with ikons, paintings and sculptures...
After sitting up nights wondering how to entrap the clean young lieutenants, ensings, midshipmen, V-12ers and G.I.s running around Cambridge unleashed, Radcliffe girls have finally found the proper snare. The signs all over the Yard saying DAPAROF, they have confessed, is just a cheap publicity gag. "Dance and Play at Radcliffe on Friday," is their new cry. Just to be cute and mysterious they condense it to DAPAROF. Something called the Radcliffe Service Organization ("We are not a USO") is the sponsor...
Even if the Senate turned thumbs down on Wallace, the President had gained at least half his objective. He had blasted arch-conservative Jesse Jones clean out of the Government. This the President was determined to do, no matter what the cost. He was convinced that Jesse Jones had had a hand in the abortive anti-Roosevelt Putsch in Texas, and he was willing to risk a full-scale battle with the Senate-even though the top objective of Term IV is to keep the Senate in friendly mood until the peace treaty arrives...
...pocket, while below two tank units rolled back & forth through the Jap positions, machine-gunning and chewing up the banana thickets. Then Chinese infantry groped in to hunt for snipers. It was good to see these Chinese troops. They had fed well for a full year, their uniforms were clean, their helmets sat jauntily on their heads...
...demanded a hospitalized veteran for every man he gives up to the combat-training camps. Gasser's combing will be ruthless; his orders are stern and clear. When he gets through with Comm Z, the Army's rear-echelon establishments will be pretty well raked clean of all men fit for combat...