Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slashed Tendons. Rock Quarry, Georgia's "Little Alcatraz" for incorrigible convicts, is a new (1950), clean but forbidding building guarded by two turreted towers. To Rock Quarry go the unruly convicts from other state prisons for twelve-month terms on the rock pile, a nearby granite quarry. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with three hours out for lunch and rest), under the eyes of hard-eyed guards armed with Winchesters and heavy sticks, they smash granite and push wheelbarrows. The discipline is as rough as the work. Five years ago 31 convicts staged a protest against both...
Like a breath of clean air in a swamp comes your damning with faint praise of Adlai and the Democratic Party. I did not think that you could stop glamorizing Ike long enough to do this...
...Clean" Bombs. The Strauss statement implies, however, that H-bombs have been made "clean" by something besides "operational factors." Nuclear pundits are already speculating about how the bombs themselves may have been changed so as to yield less fallout...
...their faults.") Re-elected for a four-year term in 1954 (defeating Browning again in 94 of 95 counties), despite campaign charges-never disproved-that his father was involved in shadowy influence-peddling and kickbacks. Works hard to impress Tennesseans with the fact that his administration is based on clean living, honesty, dawn-to-dusk hard work, Christian fellowship, prayer. Principal accomplishments: mental health program, higher teachers' salaries...
...Clean Ribbon. Royal Typewriter Co. is bringing out a new portable on which the ribbon can be changed without dirtying hands. Two spools of ribbon, each in a separate plastic case, are slipped onto the carriage, and dropped into open ribbon slots. First stroke of a key automatically locks the ribbon in place...