Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class and letterman in sports to star of the senior-class play (Death Takes a Holiday). But my most vivid recollection is, I am sure, one of his very first quotes by the news media (Inglewood High Sentinel): "One of the things I most admire in a girl is clean elbows." Evidently I was not the only Finch watcher. The following day I was only one of many girls with red, scrubbed and shiny elbows...
...graceful professionalism of the Crimson fencers was more evident than ever before on Saturday. Watching Cetrulo, Winfield, and Keller fence is a truly pleasing experience. They waste little motion in their clean and swift lunges and have none of the bouncing, jerky motions which characterize the less confident and less skilled fencers...
...Dannemora: Scenically located on the Canadian border; cells resemble those at Sing Sing and are impeccably clean; siesta permitted between morning and afternoon work periods; ice skating, bobsledding and skiing available in season; clientele permitted to have their own gardens (Angelvin was allowed to raise his own potatoes so as not to have to eat frozen french fries); waiters in the dining room attired in white hats, jackets and gloves...
Sometimes the demonstrators were armed by inadvertence-as when sanitation men, approached by hippies who offered to help clean up Grant Park, innocently gave them sticks with pointed nails to skewer wastepaper. Some of these sticks were later used as weapons. The most severe police injuries seem to have resulted from accidental ambush. At least a dozen assaults occurred when demonstrators, desperately fleeing a line of advancing police, ducked down one street and up another and unexpectedly encountered either a solitary policeman or a lone squad...
ISOLATIONISM is a clean and easy doctrine. Take a tainted institution, simply refuse to have anything to do with it, and then it won't be able to hurt you. Furthermore, if everyone else follows your enlightened example, the institution will be forced to reform its evil ways...