Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodies have passed a series of major bills. Among them: the granting of broad presidential authority to reorganize the Executive Branch and to create a Department of Energy, the first Cabinet addition since 1966; a quick tax cut to stimulate the economy; a strip-mining bill; new clean-air provisions; increased price supports on wheat and corn; a hefty increase in the minimum wage; a limited program of public works jobs. In foreign affairs, Congress voted against automatically cutting off U.S. aid to nations that violate the basic rights of their citizens; it left these decisions in the President...
SOON AFTER Longshoe befriends Davis, Mr. Nett (Bob Maroff), the prison guard assigned to Davis's floor, launches into an unexpected harangue of the newcomer. Nett reveals Davis's crime: the clean-cut prisoner is a convicted child rapist. The guard felt prompted to indict Davis before the inmates because a child molester had attacked his daughter. The insertion of this twist in the personality of Davis provides the dramatic device so badly needed in this plot. Longshoe suddenly pulls out of his self-assumed brother's keeper role, planting a well-aimed globule of spit on Davis's face...
That is not reorganization; that is shirking our responsibilities. I do not think that is justified by having a clean organization chart...
America's clean sweep of the Nobel prizes in 1976 was a hard act to follow. Last week, when seven 1977 prizewinners in the sciences were announced in Stockholm, five were again Americans. The awards, each worth...
...measure one of the sides of the triangle you've taken. Now measure the other side. Now multiply the length of the first side you took by itself. Now do the same with the second side. OK. Now measure the third side. OK, now you've made a clean sweep, measuring-wise. Now, multiply the measurement of the third side by itself. (Oh, by the way, make sure the third side you take is the longest side--that's the only "catch.") Now, add up the first two "squares." Compare them with the third "square" you have, and compare...