Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman assigned Smith to another tour of duty-to clean up the Central Intelligence Agency, then under a cloud because of inept intelligence in the Korean war. Smith swept house ruthlessly (in his first month as CIA chief, he fired 600 employees). Three years later, when Dwight Eisenhower became President, he transferred his old friend and aide to the State Department, as John Foster Dulles' under secretary and general manager of the U.S. Foreign Service. In 1954, after 44 years of public service, Beedle Smith retired to civilian life, as vice chairman of American Machine & Foundry...
...breath and suffering intense pain in the chest. Back she went to Jefferson Davis Hospital, where doctors did everything possible to boost her blood pressure and reduce the risk of further clotting. She was failing fast, 40 hours after her embolism, when Surgeon Cooley recommended a daring operation to clean out the clots from her pulmonary artery and lungs...
Take a working-class family living in a grimy, overcrowded urban slum. Move it to a spanking-clean, new garden city, cheerfully designed and well planned, where there are plenty of lawns, light and airy schools, spacious, rainproof shopping centers, no heavy traffic to menace the children. Would the family be happy in its new surroundings? The answer, as published last week in a report by Britain's Ministry of Housing: Not very...
Heathen Rites. Last week there were signs that her neighbors were beginning to understand how badly they had let the side down. When the council threatened to evict the families who refused to pay their rent, all 96 of the defaulters capitulated. "Everyone says the Mohammeds are clean," mused a tenant, "and we all know some whites are dirty." "It would be horrid not to say good morning," blurted her friend...
...people are the losers of the world, they are dressed in a human dignity of her making. They may be involved in sordid little incidents, but they are also touched by tragedy, as when the modern Antigone reflects on her father: ''The guilty mess would be burnt clean, cleared of pity. She would spare him nothing. She would lead him to her own complete despair, to the place of rest which was at the same time the place where the Furies live...