Word: cleansing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Someone interviews the man who cleans out the latrines. He is a cheerful man. He likes these kids-they're great Americans. One of his sons is here, he says; the other is over in Vietnam. "He's up in the DMZ, right now, flying helicopters." In my dreams I...