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Word: cleans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops, with U.S. help, have lately made progress against the Communist rebels. Although Tito has cut down on his aid, Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania continue to train and equip the Greek Reds. On both sides of the Iron Curtain the struggle for Greece is watched intently. Failure to clean out the Communist bands will be taken as evidence that the anti-Communist world has no effective answer to Communist rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Keep your eyes clean and your ears quiet and your mind serene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mountain | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Champion proved to be a clean knockout for practically everybody connected with it. To get ready for his remarkable fistic performance, Actor Kirk Douglas, 32, trained for a month and a half, six days a week, under the knowing eye of "Mushy" Callahan, onetime world's junior welterweight champion. Until then, the nearest Douglas had ever come to boxing was skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...looked over some of the movies of last fall's games," the 27-year-old former B-17 pilot reports, "and we saw evidence of good individual effort." Gannon says "everybody will start with a clean slate." Last fall International won two, lost four, and tied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gannon Plans His Year | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

...Return of Rin Tin Tin. It is such a satisfaction to see a movie that has no drinking, no suggestive scenes and dialogue, that I'll take a good clean horse or dog show any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind the Popcorn Popper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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