Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week newspaper readers hung over every detail of a new thriller that promised to follow the classic tradition. Its setting was the town of Rhyl, a drab Welsh working-class seaside resort. There, one rainy day last May, 29-year-old Leslie Harvey, taxi driver, decided to clean out an old, locked closet on the upstairs landing in the shabby boardinghouse on West Kinmel Street owned by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Harvey, 65. She had been under treatment for a cancerous stomach tumor, and he planned to have the house spruced up as a surprise for her when...
Also Imbalance. There is something to be said for Soapy's New Deal. Previous administrations had been seared with scandal; Soapy has been scrupulously clean. He recruited a whole new crop of enthusiastic youngsters into politics. He pushed through a state Fair Employment Practices law, and under him several Negro Democrats have risen to prominent office-including Auditor General Otis...
Massachusetts. Outgoing Democrat Foster Furcolo's job is up for grabs. Both Republican John Anthony Volpe, 51, a prosperous contractor, and voluble Democratic Secretary of State Joseph Duckford Ward, 46, a dark-horse primary winner over six opponents, promise to bring back good clean government. Native Son John Kennedy's statewide lead gives Democrat Ward an advantage...
...Congolese are supposed to hate the Belgians, but daily a wizened black appeared at the big statue of King Albert to tend the flowers and clean away the scraps of paper; no mob had thought to topple Albert or the big figure of Leopold II that stands before the Parliament building. Léopoldville has no visible revenue, but somehow the lights functioned, the garbage was collected and the water ran normally. Government departments were hardly functioning, but to the utter amazement of Manhattan financiers, a check arrived at Dillon. Read & Co.'s Wall Street offices from the Congo...
...light of the burning thatch we saw a man standing in the doorway of the saklia [hut]. This man, who was very tall and powerfully built, stood quite still, as if giving us time to take aim. Then, suddenly, with the spring of a wild beast, he leapt clean over the heads of the very line of soldiers about to fire on him. and landing behind them, whirling his sword in his left hand, he cut down three of them, but was bayoneted by the fourth, the steel plunging deep into his chest. His face still extraordinary in its immobility...