Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish legato as rippling as McCormack...
...advocating a "preventive war" before Russia perfected her own atomic bomb. It denounced the U.S. plan for atomic control as humiliating to the Russians. The letter was a kind of secondary explosion which blew the Secretaries of War and Navy and Bernard Baruch, godfather of the atomic-control plan, clean out of their seats. They arrived at the White House with denials and protests...
Before they took office, Gandhi had counseled the ministers on domestic conduct: do not keep a large retinue of servants; make women do housework; "I am sure that no leader will hesitate to clean his own lavatory." Now he questioned each minister closely about the workings of his department, and made practical suggestions to which his spiritual authority gave the weight of a military command. One minister reported that the Mahatma "is keen for industrial progress...
...palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
...Journalist Dunn, all credit for a clean beat...