Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poignant tragedy of shortsightedness in the present discussion about fallout and the relative merits of clean versus dirty bombs, especially from the point of view of a shock hydrodynamicist. War has always been a stupid, nasty and insane business, at best, and the present orders of magnitude on civilian targets lends little sense to the hypocrisy of trying to distinguish between useful and useless killing...
...Town. At that point Angels Camp and the A.M.A. both had had enough. A.M.A. members volunteered to clean out the town. Police Chief Joe Spinelli refused, instead persuaded them to cancel a scheduled parade. Spinelli telephoned the Calaveras County sheriff for reinforcements, moved his seven men to the town's edge to join arriving officers in a show of force. The power play was effective. Hoodlums sprawling along Main Street found themselves suddenly pinned between 30-odd policemen walking quietly into town from the south and 14 carloads of state highway patrolmen rolling in from the north. The cops...
...extended European tour, to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels. Then 450 of its best works went on permanent exhibition in the Hitler-built Haus der Kunst, while the old building, its true home, was only a dismal rendezvous for petty gangsters and furtive lovers. When plans got underway to clean up the ruin and replace it with a technical university, a groundswell of impassioned opposition pushed the local Bavarian government to rebuild the Alte Pinakothek...
...week his latest lament, Valley of Tears, was doing well: "Only four weeks old, and that baby is hittin' between seven and eight hundred thousand." Fats talks the words in his songs, and they can be understood-a rarity among rock 'n' rollers. The lyrics are clean, but the beat is lowdown and as basic as they come. His head-rolling piano antics never sink to pelvis level...
...business. Last year 41,000 companies served some 23 million meals each working day to their employees, spent more than $3 billion on food, equipment and service. Says a Joseph E. Seagram & Sons executive: "We look upon it as a necessary function of our industrial-relations program-just like clean rest rooms, or a pleasant, well-lighted place to work...