Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulate you on the President-grooming job you did on Vice President Nixon in the Dec. 9 issue? You have whitewashed Tricky Dick so clean that I am sure his own mother wouldn't recognize him. I almost burst into tears about the modest 9-Ib. turkey (no 40-pounder for him) that Pat roasted on Thanksgiving...
Following horrifying news reports of the trial, many Frenchmen hoped that the case would lead to a clean sweep of France's antiquated pharmaceutical laws. On trial was not only Pharmacist Feuillet but in effect the French Ministry of Health, which had tested Stalinon and allowed it to be marketed. One official coolly explained to the court: "We have only about two minutes on the average to examine each new product submitted." He claimed that "nothing was wrong" with the way Stalinon was approved and that "the same thing would happen again, and we would again issue the permit...
...down Texas Christian's great Halfback Jim Swink, Crow came up to "secure" the tackle, as the football euphemism goes. He knocked both Swink and Tracey goggle-eyed, and Tackle Lockett was belted right out of the game. Says he: "I felt like Crow had pushed my neck clean through my shoulders...
...meanness to a taste for heroics. "We don't hire linebackers that aren't mean," admits Ramsey readily. "And the first few days on the practice field in 1953 you could tell that Schmidt was a man we could use. But unlike some linebackers, he's clean at being mean." Says Schmidt simply: "I tackle low and hard. There's only one reason for a high, crashing tackle-to hurt a man. It gives me just as much satisfaction to nail a hard-running back on the line of scrimmage as it does for a back...
Robert Graves (Caedmon) reads his prose (from The White Goddess) with passion and his poetry with clean detachment, but both in the measured tones of a man setting the world straight. For lovers of magic and the Moon Goddess...