Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon won Harry Truman's home precinct, but little else, Democratic winners in clean sweeps were Kennedy, Governor-elect John Dalton, re-elected Senator Edward Long, and House Parliamentarian Clarence Cannon...
Despite all the grandstand opinion on how the economy is doing, the heart of the story is told in the box score: company earnings. Last week, as a flood of third-quarter earnings came out, there were some expected strikeouts. But there were also a surprising number of clean base hits where none were expected...
...book's best piece is about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father...
Commenting on Kennedy's proposal, Dean Monro called the Peace Corps "a healthy notion," but expressed hope that some of its members would be used to "clean up backward areas in the United States...
...washing machines produced by the industry last year, some 10% were made for self-service stores. The next step may well be dry-cleanomats -and a new market for hard goods. Norge has brought out a coin-operated dry cleaner that will clean eight pounds of clothes...