Word: washed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coach, Bill Belichick. But it's only poetic justice. An N.F.L. owner once said, "We can't hopscotch franchises around the country. We have built this business on the trust of fans. If we treat that as if it doesn't count, it isn't going to wash." The owner who said that was Art Modell...
Instead of appearing to wash their hands of the human rights abuses in Nigeria, the University should retain its shares in Shell and use them to vote as "conscientious shareholders," said Jeremy R. Jenkins...
...build-down of forces, with every detail of every map and timetable firmly and finally agreed on--an agreement so airtight (here's the rub) that it is self-enforcing, without need for outside "implementers"; or 2) we declare the parties insufficiently committed to peace, walk away and wash our hands...
...Gypsies are not itinerant, except when uprooted by local prejudice or intimidation. Despite the external squalor of their compounds, Gypsies, Fonseca writes, are almost ritualistically fanatical about cleanliness. She describes living in a Gypsy family's home in Albania, where she was considered unfit, as a mere gadja, to wash herself. Proper scrubbing was performed by two teenage girls...
...heard from the mayor of New Orleans, Boston and Philadelphia. Their experience should help us avoid some of the pitfalls of city government," said Brian Ebersole, mayor-elect of Tacoma, Wash., who was attending the seminar...