Word: washday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Main Street of America there was only a little cheering. In Des Moines a housewife telephoned a newspaper: "Shall I go ahead and bake a pie for tomorrow?" In Emporia, Kans., as in most of the nation's towns and villages, it was another Monday and another washday. But on this Monday, Emporia got the news that four more of its sons had been killed in battle...