Word: cleanout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transition without pause from subdued "Quoniam" to the crashing joy of the "Cum Sancto Spritu" was one of the most dramatic moments I have ever heard in music. Though things, got a little out of control in the "Et Resurrexit," the chorus redeemed itself in a powerful and cleanout performance of the "Sanetus...
Congressmen reasoned that all that was needed was a good cleanout; there was no real labor pinch, that where there were local shortages, the voluntary methods advocated by organized labor and the N.A.M. would probably do the trick. Cleveland was launching such a campaign. Even the War Manpower Commission might be able to handle things. WMC had bared its muscle in Allentown, Pa., and had put high-paid brewery workers in munitions plants. Congress relaxed...
...spite of a flat warning that their showing in battle would determine whether they would be sent home or kept in uniform, many a ranker, many a subaltern flubbed his battle shots. Through the maneuver area ran the rumor that when next week's battle was over the cleanout of substandard officers would be terrific-perhaps as high...