Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students are now often reckoned as a part of the Establishment. They are not only asking to be "counted in," but they are even adopting the accouterments deemed to constitute the American formula for success. Competition is the key word. "Work hard, clean up, learn from your elders, and success will be yours," they have been told. Courses are unerringly chosen according to their reported marketability...
Radcliffe puts its clean slate on the line against a tough Williams squad on Saturday...
Treasury Secretary William Simon last year made the most drastic tax-reform proposal of all. He would "wipe the slate clean of personal tax preferences, special deductions and credits, exclusions from income and the like." By his reckoning, the Government could then slash tax rates by almost a third with no loss of revenue...
Boys of the Lough: A folk band from the British Isles, these boys surely must realize that they'd better clean up their act with a little contemporary U.S. disco muzak to rope in those big bucks (or "pounds," if you will...
...phrase "born again" conjures a variety of images--straight and clean-cut young people handing out tracts on street corners, sudden revelations, a provincial team spirit for God with a sprinkling of busybodiness...