Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the same for California oil as they'do for imports-or not that much less. Few buyers want the California crude even at slightly cheaper prices because it is "sour," high-sulfur oil. It is costlier to refine because it produces less gasoline and other clean fuels than Alaskan oil and higher-quality imports. Its primary end-product is a high-polluting residual fuel...
...nothing of the real Nixon emerges. The weird intensity, the paranoid desperation of the man who believed he always knew the right answer, and alone could act upon it, is gone. Instead, we are given a shallow, simplistic portrait of events, with the personality of the Great Vindictor sucked clean out of them. By contrast, the David Frost television interviews were volatile--if such a word is not ludicrous to use in describing them--and gave a far more penetrating look into the Nixon mentality...
Since "strict discretion is absolutely necessary" if terrorists are to blend in with their surroundings, "every comrade must be decorously dressed and be personally well-kept: clean shaven and hair cut." (In fact, several prominent Brigatisti, including imprisoned Leader Renato Curcio, do sport beards.) Terrorists are admonished "as a matter of principle" to be "reassuring and kind to neighbors and not make noise after hours...
ENGAGED. Donny Osmond, 20, squeaky-clean teen idol and entertainer who with his sister is host of one of television's most successful variety shows, The Donny and Marie Show; and Debra Glenn, 19, a freshman at Brigham Young University; after a proposal in a Mormon temple in Honolulu, where Donny is making a movie...
Carter personifies the resurgence of the white South which began about 1971. The memory and burden of Tobacco Road are purged by his work ethic and clean living. He is John-Boy Walton grown...