Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Message from Prison. Erhard promptly formed his own research group, soon had dozens of sponsors for new projects. But he was constantly under the shadow of Hitler's men. Streicher kept muttering, "That's a nest that we'll have to clean out one of these days...
...Charles River; it has a very embarrassing smell. A longstanding rumor says that the odiferous river carries an immense amount of sewage, industrial wastes, and garbage. The rumor is wrong. The engineers at the Massachusetts Public Health laboratories have found that the Charles, even by national standards, is quite clean. In fact, MPH engineers consider the Charles one of the state's cleanest small rivers...
...Sundin burned into the students' brains the radio frequency of 121.5 megacycles, the universal "Mayday" channel. "Now," he pointed out, "if something goes wrong, you just turn to that frequency and say 'It's Mabel-Help!' and they'll help. Why, they'll clean every other airplane out of the area for you, Mabel, and they'll talk you right into a nice, greasy landing." Mabel grasped the co-pilot steering wheel-which in today's planes reassuringly looks and operates much like a car's-and began to feel that...
...there is more to it than that. The State News covered the state legislature with such thoroughness that the Wilmington papers' one-man Dover bureau hollered for reinforcements-and got them. Smyth's men scored a clean beat over the Wilmington dailies with a story about a state welfare department scandal-in Wilmington. During the severe Atlantic Coast storm that wrecked Delaware for two March days in 1962, State News coverage was far superior to that of the Wilmington papers...
...Fielding's favorite characters, and Richardson makes frequent and gloriously funny use of them. His actors catch the spirit of the thing from the first scene, and they have a picnic. The characters are rumbustious caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct: the aboriginal...