Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Test small, "clean" nuclear devices, but no big bombs...
...shares of some stocks can drive the stocks down several points. The drift has moved many professionals to sit on the sidelines and wait for a selling climax. In market folklore, a heavy trading day with the ticker running late on the down side is just the thing to clean out the fainthearted in one fell swoop, stop the market from dribbling lower every day. Since such a clean-out is impossible in the economy as a whole, the pessimists will have to bear their mood of uneasiness patiently until the dyspepsia passes...
...seeded, self-service elevators begin humming in the flat-fronted apartment buildings that shoot up steadily at the eastern end of the city's valley. On the slopes to the north and south, concrete flows into forms to make walls, patios, retaining walls and swimming pools for low, clean-lined mansions that can cost as much as $3,000,000. Overnight, packing-case houses with stone-weighted corrugated roofs rise on the hills that ring the city, as the ever-worsening shortage of housing forces slums down the hillsides toward the houses of the rich...
...unprintable tour through the racier passages of Navy mythology in a series of songs sung by the fleet in World War II-Guantanamo Bay, Subdivision Nine, Zamboanga. The cast of female characters includes such wonders as Miss VD of Guam: "Admiral Nimitz gave the order/ Better keep your noses clean/ But Miss VD was waiting/ Like a bloody sex machine...
...been named by the FTC: Life cigarettes, Rolaids, Carter's Little "Liver" Pills. What miffed Reeves most was that until two months ago, the FTC had usually tipped him and the advertiser that a complaint was coming, given them a chance to argue their case beforehand or to clean up the controversial ad and thus kill the complaint. This time, said Reeves, the FTC simply issued complaints...