Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Derrick: "Man, check it out--the trunk's full of shit! How're we gonna clean up that shit...
When I enter Boston's Logan airport and emerge in Boise's Beeson airport, the differences usually strike me first. The air is clean, the men all open doors for me and everyone walks just a little bit slower. But some things exist to remind me that this is still the United States and that there's a lot tying us together...
Their rampant slaughtering and torturing drove millions, including my parents, to flee to Hong Kong. Sure, the British took Hong Kong unjustly. But without them, Hong Kong wouldn't have a prosperous free-enterprise economy, a free society governed by law, a clean and efficient government. So now that the glorious Union Jack has been lowered for the last time in beautiful Hong Kong, I want to thank the British for all they've done to make Hong Kong what it is today. BENJAMIN KONG, age 15 Arcadia, Calif...
...what has been widely celebrated as a glorious era for the city, they would probably start with the fact that the squeegee guys are off the streets. In years past, at certain intersections in Manhattan, menacing-looking characters used to approach cars at red lights and, without invitation, clean the windshield as well as a windshield could be cleaned with a filthy rag. For this they would expect money. They were called squeegee guys...
Then I saw the movie Face/Off. Some of it takes place in an awesomely severe prison whose very existence is secret. It occurred to me that the squeegee guys could be in such a prison. Maybe part of their sentence is to clean windshields over and over with a clean cloth and then decline the quarter offered them by the guard who sits behind the wheel...