Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...defense for most of the game, Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team kept its slate clean by eking out a 1 to 1 tie with Medford High School yesterday on the Business School Field. The Yardlings scored first in 8:45 of the second period on a boot by wing Sherry Houston, but Medford evened the score early in the fourth frame when Leo Livoti sunk one from a scramble in front of the goal...
...cornering and capturing guerrillas. For this purpose light-armed, fast-moving troops are needed, equipped with jeeps, half-tracks, light trucks, small arms, machine guns and 75s. The estimates of the ablest American and Chinese officers indicate that 20 divisions of such troops should be able to clean up North China...
...medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
...national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted activity. Nevertheless when the chips were down the slate of officers advanced by the SDA group won a near clean sweep...