Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What can a hate group do to clean up its dirty image? The Reidsville klavern of North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan thought it had come up with a tidy answer: it offered to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, under which 5,000 civic and social organizations have agreed to keep 10,000 miles of state highways clear of litter. At least four times a year, the Klansmen would exchange their white robes for orange vests and pick up trash along three miles of U.S. 158, east of Reidsville. In return, a sign noting their good deeds...
...wooing has heated up lately because Bush has angered conservatives by making concessions to Democrats on clean air, the contras and gun control. Unlike Ronald Reagan, whose ties to the right were so strong that he could occasionally ignore conservatives, Bush routinely courts the right...
...behemoths entwine their trunks, flap their enormous ears and clack tusk against tusk, sending the cold crack of ivory across the Ngulia Hills. That same sound is heard 10,000 miles away in Hong Kong and Tokyo, where ivory traders stack tusk upon tusk -- more than 800 tons, scrubbed clean of blood and connective tissue and laundered free of illegality...
...boot-camp routine. The day begins at 5 a.m., when correctional officer Robert Richards mashes down on a bank of toggle switches, unlocking the cell doors. "On line, on line, let's go!" he shouts, as bleary-eyed inmates appear at attention in the doorways. Then there is cell clean-up, a shower and marching off to breakfast. Any inmate who deviates even slightly from the prescribed regimentation is ordered to drop to the ground and "give me 50" -- meaning 50 push...
...scientific community still has a chance to clean up its act before Congress gets its clumsy hands into the laboratory. Perennial admonitions to the scientific community have not gone completely unheeded. Many universities and mega-laboratories have instituted guidelines to control the more destructive consequences of scientific competition...