Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pride from degradation and suffering. A would-be playwright meanders drunkenly across the stage singing the old revival hymn "Wash Me Whiter Than Snow," and condemning the not-so-antiseptic world his family found when they tried to leave their "dirty, filthy nigger hovels across the tracks" and imitate "clean, white people...
...divisions over the issues in Cambridge are strikingly class oriented. Upper class professionals are interested in preserving what they have--clean streets, clapboard private houses with small lawns, and quiet, wooded neighborhoods. They are reacting against overcrowding in Cambridge, plans to erect high-rise buildings and mounting traffic and pollution...
George W. Spartichino is one of those ethnic candidates that every Cambridge City Council election seems to attract. Even though he is running on a shoe-string budget--his bumper stickers are the left-overs of former Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn's governors campaign that have been stripped clean and reprinted--Spartichino insists that the north Cambridge voters that kept him in the State Legislature from 1956 to 1966 can send him to the council...
...Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant...
...Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black. The odds are long, but Poitier's hypnotic skills are considerable. Bootney flattens the champ in the first round. The boys clean...