Word: washer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pain of Pane. In Montgomery, Ala., Window Washer John Dickens was fined $25 for smashing all the windows in his own home...
Khrushchev smilingly scoffed at an electronic household "console" that is supposed to enable housewives of tomorrow to run their appliances through remote control. A model pressed a button and a dishwasher scooted out of a cabinet and across the floor. At the press of another button, an automatic floor washer and polisher emerged from another cabinet and scurried about like a creature out of science fiction. "Don't you have a machine that puts food in your mouth and pushes it down?" asked Khrushchev with heavy sarcasm. "This is not a rational approach. These are gadgets we will never...
With an ear to such warnings, businessmen have begun to pay more heed to spreading the dividends of increased production and cost-cutting automation. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber announced an "anti-inflation" cut of 5% to 15% in prices of replacement tires. Norge reduced its washer and dryer tags as much as 10%. The Federal Communications Commission chimed in, ordered a reluctant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to reduce long-distance telephone rates (for calls of more than 300 miles) by $50 million. In heavy industry-where cuts trickle down eventually to the consumer-General Electric lopped...
...Retreat. On Duck Island, his sanctuary out of reach of Washington on Lake Ontario, Foster Dulles moved with Janet into a different kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...first effects of the technologicial age became apparent when scholars learned the machine best wringed out prose composed in the United Kingdom, composed preferably, before the start of the 19th century. Sadly, America was a land of haste and the automatic washer-dryer, and the work of American prosewriters proved too crude, too harsh, for the Eliot machine's sensitivities. No fools, the scholars did not be-tray their beloved machine, and respected its sensitivities; they didn't bother much with trying to process American literature, particularly modern American literature...