Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue between George and Herbie was not morals but method. Herbie stood for a "regulated city." George's platform was "clean but liberal." It soon became apparent that Clough was planning a wider-open city than Herbie...
...What do I mean by clean?" he asked, explaining his policy on bawdyhouses: "Keep the chippies (juveniles) out of the place. Don't handle dope in any way, shape or form. No showing of lewd sex movies." Above all, he added, reopen the old red-light district in Post Office Street...
...Clean Bill. First manufacturer to get a going-over was Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. - largely, no doubt, because its vac cine so far had a spotless record and there was every reason to believe that the PHS would have good news about it. The in vestigating team did not repeat the whole testing procedure, which takes three months. Instead, it quizzed the technicians in the testing rooms. Team members not only again pored over the bulky "pro tocols" (elaborate reports from manufac turer to Washington, showing the result of every phase of every test); they also leafed through...
There is an essential, stripped-down--quality to Honig's poetry; it is clean of superfluities, nothing is overstated. Thus, without feeling any emotionalism in the author, the reader is aroused and given the mood in a few, terse lines. The poet does not often stop even to arrange a setting, but cuts immediately to the important question at hand, the particular act in the moral circus...
After several minutes inside the ward, it was not difficult for a visitor to sense that there was something gloomy beneath the carnival spirit. Although the ward of about 50 women--specially joined for the afternoon by men from another ward--was generally clean, a strange antiseptic-like odor permeated the place. And, if 25 of the women were dancing, another 25 were sitting sullenly in the two long lines of chairs on either wall--some watching the gaiety with scorn, others gazing vacantly out the windows, while still others were constantly chattering to themselves and to anyone who would...