Search Details

Word: cleansed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Sir / As to "California Cleans" [Oct. 23], my first reaction to the article was: What a fantastic country! People write twaddle about pornography as if it could destroy the whole nation, while they accept and defend a system that makes it possible for every potential murderer to carry a gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1972 | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

THE PEASANT. A worker at the Ma Chang Commune in Honan will rise at dawn, come rain or shine. Before a breakfast of corn dumpling soup and tea, he will spend two hours plowing the stony earth while his wife cleans their two-room hut, then joins him in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Life in the Middle Kingdom | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

His next contact with the law enforcement system of California was in August of 1958 when he was arrested in Bakersfield for allegedly threatening his employer's life and damaging some of his property. A month later, he was picked up in Bakersfield for a service station robbery that had...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: West to Crime and Punishment | 10/21/1971 | See Source »

Those substitutes, unfortunately, seem to be more dangerous than phosphates. One of the chemicals, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), was substituted because it cleans well and usually decomposes soon after use. But it has been found to combine with heavy metals like mercury and cadmium in drinking-water supplies, producing chemical compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Return of the Phosphates | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Boudreau turns positively sentimental when he talks about the beauty of the land. "What a wonderful world we would have if we could see beauty all the time." Sentimental or not, he personally ensures that every community he visits cleans up its riverfront. In that, he may or may not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barge Man | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

Previous | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | Next