Word: cleans
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Will you tell Solzhenitsyn that I said for him to go home to his own country and clean it up if he thinks it needs...
What gives the house its singularity on campus is that the members run everything: they buy their own food, do their own cooking and clean up after themselves. When it was originally founded in the early 1950s, scholarship policies at the University were less liberal than they are today and the purpose of the house was to provide a place for students who could not afford to live in the River Houses. From the beginning its members prized their independence and espoused a fierce egalitarianism. Over the years they have followed Bertrand Russell's precept that the first duty...
...carrying a detachment of soldiers makes its way through picturesque but hostile country. Everyone aboard is fearful of Indian attack, yet bravely determined to relieve an isolated garrison whose force has been decimated by disease. From these elements one might well fashion an outdoor drama of stark simplicity, a clean-lined action picture of the sort no one seems to make any more. The trouble is that Writer Mac-Lean, adapting his own novel, is at heart a puzzlemaker, not a picturemaker. So all that nice scenery whizzes wastefully by outside the windows, while he concentrates his attention...
Teddy's living quarters-one of eight "laminar air flow rooms" set up by the NCI for infection-prone patients -is kept free of potentially harmful viruses and bacteria by a system that forces clean air into the room through filters and out through an open doorway; germs cannot make their way past the outward-flowing air. Only people dressed in specially designed sterile outfits are allowed into the room...
Carlson said that the clipping did not look systematic because some volumes had been stripped clean while others were untouched. She said said it appears that someone was filling in a collection or picking up just certain prints...