Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government-sanctioned newspaper, Politika, denounced the lack of basic goods like soap and detergents. For the first time since World War II, the paper reported, the schools of Warsaw are infested by lice...
...smooth bar of soap, wrapped neatly in a white handkerchief and tucked safely in the breast pocket of a faded leather jacket, is all that keeps George from losing himself to the streets. When he wakes each morning from his makeshift bed of newspapers in the subway tunnels of Philadelphia, he heads for the rest room of a nearby bus station or McDonald's and begins an elaborate ritual of washing off the dirt and smells of homelessness: first the hands and forearms, then the face and neck and finally the fingernails and teeth. Twice a week he takes...
Like all the President's children, Michael Reagan, 41, has had a rather protean career. He has been a boat salesman, gasohol entrepreneur and soap opera actor. This year Michael, the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife Actress Jane Wyman, will try his hand at writing. His family is not likely to be pleased...
Whether Ronald Reagan has the verve, the understanding and the imagination to grab it is the hour's most intriguing question. It will take a touch of humility, a bit of conciliation and no little amount of old-fashioned soft soap. If he misses the opportunity, then in all likelihood the system will roll by and maybe even over him while he huddles in the White House, a giant become pitiful...
RISING COLLEGE costs and diminishing federal aid threaten to turn the American system of financing higher education into a national soap opera, "Graduates in Debt." A report released last week by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee warns that while student borrowing under federal programs has tripled in the last decade, federal grants and scholarships have decreased by 62 percent. This, the report says, threatens to overburden a generation of college graduates...