Word: grime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history. Then the woolly and gaseous smog, which in recent years has brooded high over the City of the Angels, came down to join the attack. In no time at all, ground visibility was cut to half a mile, eyes were smarting and windshields blurred with coats of greasy grime...
...Citizens of muddy, dingy Italy, Texas (pop. 1,258) prepared to set an example for the nation by shining up their town. They prepared so vehemently that Governor Beauford Jester proclaimed a special "Italy Day." Last week 1,000 people turned to for the blitz against grime, in one day cleaned up vacant lots, hosed down streets, planted flowers, painted buildings in the drab business section a gleaming white...
...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...
Last week Rembrandt's original subject was beginning to shine through again. The Rijksmuseum's restorers had been hard at work for nine months, washing away the grime and varnish, layer by layer, freeing the cool blues, greens and purples, the long-hidden faces. It would take another three months to bring full dawn...
...name, he said, was "Juke." He was a little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...