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Word: cleans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he looked at the exposed leg, a broad grin crept over his clean-shaven face. Oblivious of the girl's tortured movements, he beckoned his assistant over to the bed. "Mira," he said, and began to laugh. "El trabajo del brujo." The work of the witch. He pointed to the streaks of tobacco dye that covered the bruises on the girl's leg. An expert in herbal medicine in the girl's village had applied the tobacco in line with an ancient tradition that prescribes herbal cures for injuries of all kinds. The girl, her leg still swollen with...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Cheap and Ample. Heat from the earth also powers the generators of plants in Italy, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan. Because the energy is cheap, almost inexhaustible and relatively clean, it is also being developed by some 25 other countries, from Chile to Taiwan, Ethiopia to Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: Steam from the Earth | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...butchers "Marten aller Arten." She is perhaps very courageous, but she should have let her understudy sing. Ruth Elena Harcovitz was splendid as the spitfire lady-in-waiting to Constanze. With no orchestra pit in the Peabody School auditorium singers have to project through their accompaniment. Harcovitz's clean soprano and bright enunciation bring some of the best sound balance in the production...

Author: By Peter Y. Solmssen, | Title: Operatic Hors-d'oeuvres | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

...dark-eyed priest I'd expected to encounter. He would have looked more appropriate sitting in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium, a hot dog in one hand and a cold beer in the other. More than his red fleshy nose, more than his lethargic eyes, more than the deep clean wrinkles on his receding hairline, it was his hat that made him appear so unecclesiastical. It was the type of hat that one expects to find on a cigar-smoking bookie or on someone who scalps tickets at a football game. It was the hat that made me immediately think...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Junior Dave Brumwell in the 200-yd. individual medley, freshman Neil Martin in the 200-yd. backstroke, and freshman Ted Fullerton in the 200-yd. breast stroke all handily defeated their Pennsylvania opponents to give the Crimson a clean sweep of the swimming events...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Swimmers Destroy Pennsylvania, 97-15 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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