Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only effete snobs and impudent fools (or is it the other way around?) will blame clean-living American dropouts for the shooting of four-year-old children in My Lai. It needs little reflection to realize that they would have been full-grown and battle-hardened Viet Cong by the time Nixon's secret plan to end the Viet Nam war can be expected to succeed...
...sights on the road were as memorable as the people; long strings of lights on the highways (America lives for its wheels); mock-cathedral train stations (the crowns of a railroad-crazed century); bus terminals with floors that could never be swept clean (twentieth century transportation, up front about itself). The sights told of a breathing, choking land that the books cannot describe, of lives that must be seen to be believed...
...freshmen also kept their record clean by downing Williston Academy, 50-45. The meet was close all the way, and Harvard was not assured of the victory until double-winner Tim Chetin won the next-to-last event, the 100-yard breaststroke...
This is a clean, safe town. No one can just come round With ribbons and bright thread Or new books to be read. This is an established place. We have accepted patterns in lace, And ban itinerant vendors...
...Nader had his ammunition. He sent a summary of the study to the House Agriculture Committee, which was about to hold "clean meat" hearings for the first time in eight years. He quickly wrote an article for The New Republic titled "We're Back in the Jungle"?a title that echoed Upton Sinclair's classic indictment of the meat industry 60 years ago, The Jungle. He sent press releases to newspapers located near the worst plants. As a result, Nader was deluged by letters from meat handlers, meat buyers and anonymous Agriculture Department officials. He gave tips...