Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Point, he was a "Clean Sleeve" -neither scholar, nor athlete, nor class leader. "No one." says a classmate, "would have expected him to become the first general in his class, or any general at all, as far as that goes." But in his quiet, unobtrusive way, Lyman L. Lemnitzer (TIME cover. May 11, 1959) climbed to the very top of the Army ladder. A World War II specialist in logistical problems, he drew up plans for the 1942 invasion of Africa, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, but remained enough of a combat soldier...
...impatience with clichés and platitudes, a resentment against the materialist notion that affluence is the answer to everything, a contempt for banality and corn-in short, a revolt against pomposity. Sahl's popularity is a sign of a yearning for youth, irreverence, trenchancy, satire, a clean break with the past...
When the Queensland Turf Club Committee invited Dean Baddeley to the races, he obtained permission from Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse, turned up at the track in a felt hat, suede shoes and a striped suit, puffing a cigar, and proceeded to clean up. The ungloomy dean won six 55? bets in eight races for a total profit...
...whispered in Spanish: "I want to be a teacher someday. A fifth-grade teacher." After paying 13? apiece, the youngsters downed a hefty lunch, wrapped seconds in paper napkins to take home. Each child brushed his teeth and had a shower. "Now at least they're neat and clean," said Principal Paul Knight. "That's progress...
This intriguing dreaminess is, of course, harmless, but other Democratic planks are less so. The traditional clear-the-rascals-out clause is particularly ill-considered; it reads "We shall reform the processes of government in all branches . . . we will clean out corruption and conflicts of interest and improve Government service." This is the sort of thing for which Harry Truman very properly reprimanded Adlai Stevenson in 1952; surely there is no longer any need either to invoke or to exorcise the Jenner-McCarthy spirit...