Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clean Wind. A.A.'s method (inspired by William James's Varieties of Religious Experience) rests on an appeal to a Higher Power (God, or whatever Force the member prefers) for strength to resist the compulsion to drink. Founder Bill, describing his "spiritual awakening," said: "I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountaintop blew through and through." Psychiatrists, who use much fancier words, describe the process as the "use of a religious or spiritual force to attack the fundamental narcissism of the alcoholic...
...without a bit of lost motion. His height (6 ft. 5 in.), long arms and springy legs all help. But his prize asset is a big, soft hand with long fingers that enables him to shoot a "soft" ball; it seems to float lazily from his fingertips, either drops clean or drowzes tantalizingly on the basket rim, then falls...
...First 75 Million. "When this moves in over a city you have to evacuate the people right away or they will die from gamma radiation. You couldn't clean the area. The fissionable material would get into the water-into everything. It would get into next year's crop...
WPTB, checking up, found that 8,794 coupons for butter, sugar, and meat had been fished out of the vat and later used. How many clean coupons had been lost through the chute holes, WPTB could only guess. How was WPTB destroying used coupons now? Said Enforcement Officer W. F. Spence: "We dispose of them -period...
...Munich, ex-German-American Bund-leader Fritz Kuhn was given a clean bill of health by denazification authorities, who pointed out that he had not lived in Germany during the Nazi regime...