Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fine Print. In Victoria, B.C., members of the public-library board wondered how to meet the conditions of the will of Benjamin William Pearse, who left them 175 valuable volumes on condition that "they be accessible only to people with clean hands who will use them as they deserve...
...last Thursday. John Simourian will play first; Bob Hastings, second; Don Butters, third; and Jim Murray, short. Dick Hoffman will open in left field, Bill Cleary in center, and Matt Botsford in right. Captain George MacDonald will continue to play catcher and bat in the clean-up position in the batting order...
...innings later the Terriers presented the Crimson with three more runs. After Ward blooped a Texas Leaguer over second, and Hoffman got his second straight hit, Simourian lined a clean single to right, Ward stopped at third, but when the right fielder bobbled the ball, he continued to score...
...Specks" (a catchy name for vote winning) had hundreds of signs and elever gimmicks like a clock that said "Time to vote..." He even had an imitation rock pile that read "Rockalong with Specks." Within ten minutes after the display mysteriously burned down a new sign announced "Keep it clean, boys--'Specks...
...Sake. In Phenix City, Ala., after the producers of the movie The Phenix City Story announced that they were coming to town to film scenes of corruption from the city's sinful past, County Sheriff Lamar Murphy scouted about, found that the state's recent clean-up campaign (TIME, June 28) had left Phenix City clean as a whistle, hastily began importing all the gambling devices he could lay his hands on for movie scenery...