Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brothers and sisters. If anyone is found painting himself with black polish, disciplinary action will be taken against him." (In a speech in Brazzaville, August 1973.) "I am told that venereal disease is very high with you ... You had better go to the hospital to make yourselves very clean, or you will infect the whole population. I don't want you spoiled by gonorrhea." (In an address to students of Kampala's Makerere University, summer...
...have its beneficial side. St. Petersburg Times Editor Eugene Patterson has cut back news columns by 35% and told staffers to think up ways in which stories can be fully told in less space. Says Patterson: "It's a good time to look at the paper and clean out some of the deadwood we've been printing, if that's what...
Irene Sturgis, an asthmatic widow from Philadelphia, moved to Tucson, Ariz., 20 years ago on the advice of her doctor. "It was the best thing I ever did," she recalls. "The air was clean and dry, and for the first time in memory I did not have to worry about oxygen bottles and aspirators." Those were the good old days when Tucson's population was 45,000. Now it stands at 263,000, and Mrs. Sturgis, 71, is choking and sneezing again. The reason: the greening of Arizona...
...reject the cynical view that politics is inevitably or even usually a dirty business. Let us not allow what a few over-zealous people did in Watergate to tar the reputation of the millions of ded icated Americans who fought hard but clean for the candidates of their choice...
Started in 1844, the Chicken Ranch had seen a string of madams. The latest was a comely brunette in her 40s, Edna Milton. Nobody knew where Edna came from, but that did not matter. She ran a clean house that fulfilled its function: no drugs, no liquor, no teen-age whores. The girls, says one old customer, were "not too pretty, but not ugly. They were a sure thing." Edna provided services without any fancy Polly Adler-type "extras...