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Word: cleaning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwrapping their homemade sandwiches. Singling out the mild-looking, silver-haired elder of the group, she barked: "Get off that rug! Get over there with the rest of the wet ones." When someone protested, she pointed at the puddles on the floor and demanded: "Well, is he going to clean up the mess?" Then she turned on the grinning youngster of the group and exploded: "You look like a bum! Get out!" He did. So did the others. When the innkeeper learned that she had just given the heave ho to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Senator Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 19, 1961 | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...varsity tennis team defeated Yale yesterday, as most people had expected, but not before the Elis had given the once-beaten Crimson a good, clean scare. The score was 6 to 3 for the Eastern League match, and 10 to 5 in Big Three scoring...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Varsity Defeats Bulldogs, 6-3 | 5/18/1961 | See Source »

Number two singles provided the day's best tennis, as Paul Sullivan defeated Yale's Bob Hetherington, 6-4, 6-4. There were more clean winners hit in these two sets than in the three sets at number one. At number three, Crimson sophomore Dong Walter was the first man off the courts, with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over the massive Dinny Phipps. Phipps, a lumbering 250-pounder, couldn't cover the court fast enough, and Walter won without difficulty...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Tennis Varsity Defeats Bulldogs, 6-3 | 5/18/1961 | See Source »

...Howard Hanson's Chorale and Alleluia. Its combinations of woodwinds and brass were quite exhilarating, and all the more so because James A. Walker, the band's new conductor, shrewdly separated parts of each choir at various points on the stage. As throughout the evening, entrances were not uniformly clean, but the dissonant sonorities were well executed...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The Harvard Band: A Wind Ensemble? | 5/15/1961 | See Source »

...Suite for Military Band has a few attractive folk tunes but moves along with commonplace ostinatos and harmonies; Clifton Williams' Concertino blusters with some excitement and nothing more. And the empty pomposity of William Latham's Proud Heritage makes one proud of nothing at all. The performances, nonetheless, were clean and the band's sound maintained that peculiar vitality which good wind playing must have...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The Harvard Band: A Wind Ensemble? | 5/15/1961 | See Source »

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