Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsstands, the new Sunday paper had a clean, uncluttered look (six columns to the page instead of the customary eight), and it was certainly easy to carry home (8 oz. v. the 4 Ib. 2 oz. of the New York Times). The pictures were played for dramatic effect: a blast-off shot of Saturn, the U.S.'s largest rocket, soared majestically the length of the page; a glowering portrait of Brigadier General William B. Rosson, the U.S. Army's guerrilla warfare expert, was brutally cropped to eliminate part of the general's brow, all of his hair...
...Outside, where, the Chief is convinced, everything is run by "the Combine." Chief representative of the Combine in the hospital is a purse-mouthed Sataness known as Big Nurse. Big Nurse is a specialist in control; she controls everyone-the patients and the doctors and the "black boys" who clean up the ward and push the Chronics around. "She wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hairlike wires too small for anybody's eye but mine; I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with...
...boys filed eagerly into Agassix Saturday night, their faces shiny clean, their shoelaces tied, a disturbing thought was flickering in the back of all of their little minds. But no one dared to mention it. Somehow it seemed to all of them that only seven girls were there...
...problems of urbanization like housing and development ought to be chiefly the responsibility of state governments. "The problems have outrun individual local government boundaries . . . and the national government is too remote to sense and to act" on them. As in Wednesday's lecture Rockefeller kept his comments scrupulously clean of references to the Kennedy Administration, or to the President's proposed Department of Urban affairs...
...Central Intelligence Agency has been widely publicized since it served as a scapegoat for the Cuban Invasion. Last April, everybody in Washington was excusing himself on the grounds of blind gullibility, and vowing to clean up the mess which Allen Dulles had made over the years. Now, still calling for an Intelligence Agency that will be less self-willed and less inclined toward asserting foreign policy on behalf of the nation, the guiltless have approved a powerful, opinionated and unqualified man to lead...