Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams was the man who decried the influence peddling of the Truman Administration, the stern moralist who had banished Republicans from the Administration at the first hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press...
...battered for years by the corruption-in-Government issue, said remarkably little aloud but smiled at each day's news. They would not soon forgive Adams for such few but flinty campaign speeches as his January 1952 "Augean Stables" attack on Truman and the promise that Eisenhower would clean up federal corruption: "Here is the man to do it. The kind of people with whom he has surrounded himself is answer enough to that...
This week the state assembly is meeting in Calcutta, and high on the agenda is a bill for slum clearance-the first such major legislation ever introduced in Calcutta. Even this first timid gesture to clean out the bustees is opposed by the Communists. They argue that the bill favors the bustee landlords, who are to be compensated for their slum holdings, and that the money would be better spent on improving areas where there is no running water and where eight toilet seats serve 400 people. Cynically, they add that nothing will come of slum clearance anyway...
...industry has given many women the idea that perfume 1) is a precious commodity to be used sparingly, and 2) may provoke a passionate male onslaught before the evening has even begun. On their own, many U.S. women seem to think that perfume is out of step with the clean, sporty American look. Though makers sold $110 million worth of fragrance products last year (top three perfumes: Arpege, Chanel No. 5, My-Sin), the perfume market has barely expanded in the last ten years. "Perfume is a woman's secret weapon," says Jean Desprèes, executive vice president...
...Turn the flame low before blowing - to preserve the wick and keep the chimney clean...