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Word: cleans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clam it, kid. It's our stuff; we stole it clean. We should never have let him take it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Fishy in Chicago | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...went to the Rolling Stones [July 17] concert in Chicago with some anxiety. What if Jagger refused to strut and come on sexually? Suppose Keith Richard arrived clean-shaven and shirt buttoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...Instead of Attorney General John Mitchell, we have Crispin Stewart, a powerful Pennsylvania senator with Presidential ambitions. The Mitchells' young daughter, Martha, has been turned into Alice, a grade school science teacher in her 20s. The last character in the play, Dave Castle, is the senator's cool, climbing, clean-cut legal aide, not too unlike John Dean...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Worth Is Always Worth Seeing | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...Steinbrenner. He told Reggae, on his first day back, to shut up. Then he said that Jackson and Steinbrenner deserved each other, calling Reggae a liar and Steinbrenner "a convict"--a reference to his boss's conviction a few years back for illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's wonderfully clean 1972 campaign. It's not nice to call your boss a convict, even if it's true. Martin knew what he was doing, though; there was a clause in his contract forbidding him to insult the owner in public, but Billy went ahead and did it anyway. He wanted...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Shame of the Yankees: Martin Pulls the Ripcord | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...after all, pressing against the carotid arteries, impeding the flow of blood to the brain. Practically, the necktie is as supererogatory as those little belts and buckles that used to adorn the backs of men's trousers. The tie has no function except to clean eyeglasses, and even that it does badly. It makes as much sense as the grenade loops on a trench coat, or perhaps even less, since the man in the trench coat can at least carry grenades if he wishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Odd Practice of Neck Binding | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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