Word: washer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stream of water and detergent through a high-pressure hose that he uses to spray the car. Another dime gets him a packet of lintless paper towels with which to dry the car, and yet another dime turns on a vacuum cleaner for the interior. Though quick and experienced washers can get away with one quarter, most find that it takes two or three to complete the job properly, also find that they need a bit of agility to keep their clothes dry. But whatever the system, it is cheaper than the average $1.50 to $2 cost of the tunnel...
...tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 5,000,000) offering home washing-machine demonstrations. The ad drew 7,000 replies from prospering Britons-and Bloom soon had a firm set up to sell them. His unorthodox selling and barebone prices quickly cornered 10% of the washer market. Bloom then bought out lifeless Rolls, an old razor maker, to use as his corporate vehicle, expanded into dishwashers, refrigerators, trading stamps, rental TV, and even cheap holiday tours for Britons on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast...
...There's no use your giving your child a purposely wrong answer. 'It's a foot bath' can only lead to future embarrassment, misinterpretation and general confusion. As far as I know, there is no evasive answer. Just say it's a bottom washer-offer...
...wife and mother, I'm thrilled with "easy on, easy off" bread wrappers, ecstatic over the tornado in my liquid cleaner and speechless every time the giant jumps out of my washer...
...before a court of law that he was responsible. As a result she was forced to leave town, 17 years old and seven months pregnant. Starting as a prostitute, she married nine rich men in a row to become the richest woman in the world. Now, Claire Zachanassian, nee Washer, has returned to the little town to buy justice and revenge: she offers the one billion in return for her childhood lover's life...