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Word: cleans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, those who customarily clean up afterward will do so. The reports will be duly written and filed. Those who were already in a bad way will be worse off." Those who had little sympathy for them will probably have less. We have not yet found the lightning that will fuse enough of us into a force that can use the ordinary political, economic, social and moral instruments at our disposal to make changes of the scale, depth and duration required before the lights go out again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: New York's Night of Terror | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...prostitution arrests in Hollywood-ten times the average for the city's 16 other police divisions. The streets teemed with whores, transvestites and the S-M crowd dangling slave bracelets and chains. Alarmed, L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis assigned his executive officer, Captain Ken Hickman, 37, to clean up the mess with 180 extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

With so many changes in the works, the last thing the automakers need is an abortive start to the autumn selling season. Yet that is exactly what may happen if Congress does not amend the Clean Air Act before adjourning later this month. The car makers want a grace period before having to meet the strict auto pollution standards for 1978, claiming that present technology will not permit them to meet the goals without driving up gas consumption beyond the limits set by other federal laws. Though Congress has not yet acted, the automakers have tooled up their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Password for '78: 'Downsize' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...hitters, Carew scrupulously cares for his bats. He bathes them with alcohol, removing the buildup of pine tar that is used to tighten the bond between hand and wood. "I can't stand a dirty bat," he explains. "Some guys leave pine tar on their bats and never clean them off. I can't understand that. How can they get a feel for the wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...North Minneapolis, Morrie Levy's pride and joy. Raised in a conservative family, she had led a sheltered-almost a programmed-life. "I never went out with anyone whom my family didn't know. I was raised as a good Jewish girl to get married, raise children, clean the house and take care of my husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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