Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizers gave the statue a broom, a dustpan and a T-shirt reading "Janitor for a living wage," and union members tossed bags of trash at his feet...
...vast majority of our kids, the ones we love and never read about, make it through high school intact, without incident. They do the reading and sing in the choir and bag groceries after school and buy the class T shirt and don't pierce anything below their ears. And yet everything that happens to them is huge. Everybody matters: the teacher who hoists students' ambitions up to meet their potential, or the one who just ignores whatever they say until they stop saying anything; the nurse who takes students into her home to keep them from falling apart...
...Disinter the shirt and soak it for three hours in a solution of diluted bleach. Do not agitate the water or remove caked...
...Wring dry and lay flat on the top rack of a dishwasher. Use lemon-scent detergent and wash the shirt with "pot-scrubber" (two cycles) and "heated dry" (two cycles). The shirt should be fairly stiff, crunchy and a lighter shade of gray...
...forcing Kenny Rogers to throw strikes is like forcing Peter Warrick to pay for a T-shirt--it doesn't look like it's ever going to happen...