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Word: cleanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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TUESDAY'S ELECTION RESULTS show Boston is a tired city. The mood of the city is seen not in the successful tallies of certain "clean" candidates, but rather in the downfall of the city's three leading "anti-busing" (read racist) politicians. Boston is no more amenable to busing then it was three years ago, but after the street-and-beach warfare, the 25 per cent property tax hike and the constant scandals implicating almost every elected city official, Boston voters used the polls to register their disgust more than to signal any change of mood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chickens Come Home to Roost | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...more respectable winners in Boston all follow this pattern. Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara '71, also swept into office with high hopes and clean garments a few years ago, quickly sold his innocence to the mayor and has played Hubert H. Humphrey to White's corrupt Lyndon B. Johnson. DiCara would like to be State Treasurer and he needs someone's help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chickens Come Home to Roost | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

Norm has been going out to Walpole every week for over a year now. In October, after being kept back in school for three years, he moved into the 10th grade. His record has been clean for a number of months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reaching Out From Walpole | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard offense, whiewashed for the fourth time in 12 games, played a solid game but could not consistently unleash clean, hard shots at the Springfield net. "We have to learn how to score on an astro-turf surface. Their small, diagonal passes in front of the net were very effective--they had very good control of the ball," Wood commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Stickwomen Whitewashed 2-0; Will Host Tournament This Weekend | 11/8/1977 | See Source »

Instead of giving to people as Roosevelt did, Carter often must take away. Instead of building industrial capacity, Carter must frequently change its emphasis and clean up its mess. Instead of urging consumption, in some areas Carter must administer scarcity. These are negative chores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: What It Takes to Do the Job | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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