Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlines, a shipyard in Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, etc. Last week George Gordon Moore appeared voluntarily before the House subcommittee, made some of his financial records available, insisted convincingly that he had never used the Eisenhowers to help his business fortunes-"No. sir!" After getting a clean bill and friendly smiles from the subcommittee, Moore departed, saying: "Being an Eisenhower in-law from a business standpoint can be more of a liability than an asset...
...Major Nangolan hastily moved out, first scooping up 18 million rupiahs from a local bank and taking all the arms and gasoline he could carry. The only report of damage in the recapture of Medan came from a Sikh businessman who declared that someone had shot a hole clean through his refrigerator...
...what to do to fight the staph, the authorities give unanimous advice: ¶ Clean up the hospitals. ¶ Make doctors and nurses scrub up better, use heavier masks, take far more care in many details-e.g., changing their shoes when moving between surgical and nonsurgical areas...
...this spare, direct first novel by a 25-year-old Californian, the members of the triangle are less interesting than the author's skill at triangulation. The draftee hero is clean-cut enough to be a sidekick of Frank Merriwell. The girl is sweet enough to grace a soap ad. And the bedeviled antagonist is the victim of an unconscious drive that makes him pathetic rather than villainous. Yet this is the kind of book that demands to be read at one sitting: the people may not be important, but their story...
...might be ready to change its position on nuclear-weapons tests, which was that the U.S. would not stop the tests unless the U.S.S.R. also stopped nuclear-weapons production. The new line: after this spring's nuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll, the U.S. will know more about "clean bombs'' for limited wars, hence will have less to lose by agreeing to a stoppage of tests without any Russian payment in return. Dulles himself seemed to signal some change in emphasis in recent testimony to a closed session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He still thinks...