Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Mrs. Roger Horan had life by the tail. Everybody said she looked like Linda Darnell-and she did. Everybody said her three children were bright and beautiful. They were. Her pin-clean apartment in ugly, teeming Astoria, across the East River from Upper Manhattan, was not so bad, considering the housing pinch. And her husband...
...week, the Nanking dopesters tried to guess what was in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's mind. His bigger, better-equipped armies might score quick victories if they were unleashed. The reactionary clique within the Kuomintang clamored: "If [General Marshall] would only let us at the Communists we could clean them out in three to six months." (U.S. officers in China regard this estimate as optimistic...
...club's record for the season is six wins against seven losses so that a clean sweep over the weekend will finish the team over the 500 mark...
...Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about it, the answer was as GI as Willie and Joe: "This is the Army, Jack...
...P.A.C., at least California's P.A.C., that was that. But the big fact was that in a big state, a state which has sometimes decided national elections, a state which had previously supported the New Deal, a big Republican swept the board clean...