Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officially enacted any Jim Crow laws, blacks, whites and hispanics had drifted unacceptably to separate school districts anyway, and that, as they say in the courts, mandated redress. Garrity documented a similar situation in Boston, where, to boot, an in-state Racial Imbalance Act had ordered the city to clean up its act as far back as 1965. The School Committee had disobeyed that act. Garrity, in June 1973, said, briefly, obey...
...officially enacted any Jim Crow laws, blacks, whites and hispanics had drifted unacceptably to separate school districts anyway, and that, as they say in the courts, mandated redress. Garrity documented a similar situation in Boston, where, to boot, an in-state Racial Imbalance Act had ordered the city to clean up its act as far back as 1965. The School Committee had disobeyed that act. Garrity, in June 1973, said, briefly, obey...
...Swept Clean. The peeling in Baltimore was painful. When Thomas came in 1972, the team was only one year past a Super Bowl title, but already aging and on the way down. One by one, veterans like Unitas, Tom Matte and John Mackey were benched, then traded. His broom swept clean: only six of the 40 veterans on the squad were with Baltimore before Thomas arrived...
...talent is to roll out endless spools of language that inform but do not rile. It is a strange, self-limiting role for garrulous, confident men. Opinionated candor must be held in check; the impartiality that a writer achieves painfully at his typewriter has to emerge instantly, toothpaste-clean, from the anchor man or commentator...
...city dweller's old dream: a cottage far from the lethal crowd, perhaps in a little town where the air is sweet, the living easy and, most important, the streets are clean of muggers, rapists and Saturday night specialists...