Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds' light, mustard-colored uniforms were generally clean, and the men were well armed with Bren guns, Tommy guns, modern rifles (some of Japanese make, some U.S.). They carried pouches of hand grenades at their belts, bandoleers of cartridges across their shoulders. Many were exhausted. At every halt, soldiers slumped in doorways and on sidewalks. One tall native of Shantung looked up wearily: "What day is it today? We've been walking and fighting for eight days...
Penny-pitching is no doubt universal, but where else do they pick an "Olympic" champion (Lowell's is Alan J. Green'48) and where else does a "syndicate" operate to clean up most of the winnings
Scafarella shows no sympathy. "We aren't concerned with production," he says. "We collect rents. Anyway, the peasants are retrograde. If we built clean, good homes, they'd only dirty them...
...divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song: 'He who does not feel this way should not ask us for love...
...Neither Congress nor any government agency ever said I was a Communist," Edelman stated. "On Tuesday the Senate gave me a clean bill of health. The press is the real evil. It brings tremendous suffering to the family and friends...