Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislature-he was never to lose in a total of 13 contests-and served in the lower house for six terms, two of them as speaker. Then came ten years in the U.S. House and four in the Governor's mansion. As Governor, Herter won a reputation for clean, efficient, economical rule...
...toward "MIG Valley," the industrial envelope 30 miles northwest of Hanoi. American intelligence officers had already noted that the North Vietnamese usually scrambled their fighters when U.S. planes approached this sensitive sector, but this time the 50 incoming planes were not cumbersome fighter-bombers. Instead, the Phantoms were flying "clean," without the bombs and extra fuel tanks that reduce maneuverability. To North Vietnamese radar, however, they looked just like fighter-bombers, and up came the MIGs to harass them. What resulted was the first pitched battle between the two best operational fighters in the world: the Communist MIG-21 "Fishbed...
...autobiography, Football and the Single Man, the Green Bay Packers' sometime Golden Boy, Halfback Paul Hornung, 31, sounded as brave, clean and reverent as a Boy Scout. Said he: "I would still rather score a touchdown than make love to the prettiest girl in the United States." Hampered this season by a pinched nerve in his neck, Paul scored only five touchdowns. But at least he's got one of the prettier girls in the U.S. And in a few weeks, Paul, the swinger emeritus of the National Football League, will marry Dallas Model Pat Roeder...
...army teaches many men skills which are not inherently "military" and will later prove useful in civilian life. It trains men to build radios, clean engines and fly planes. But it does not provide this training for fun or profit. The army, as the best of its generals insists, is no poor man's college or vocational school. The man who gets his education in the army pays for it with at least two years in bondage...
...Castela Branco's main ideas in taking over the government was to "clean up" Brazilian politics. To what extent do you think he has cleaned up politics in Brazil...