Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cried in a broadcast to the people, "that in addition to the treacherous rebels who are rampant today, speculation, manipulation and high living to the point of lasciviousness on the part of social parasites in our midst are also to blame for our crisis ... It is my intention to wash away these social dregs by opening the floodgates of public conscience and social justice...
Penmanship. In Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain...
...whizzing lights and large shining objects. A pair of Eastern Air Lines pilots saw the first-some kind of wingless plane with two rows of lighted windows and a plume of red flame at its tail. Then two CAA employees saw a "gigantic silvery ball" floating over Yakima, Wash...
...materials for this picture, brazenly borrowing his method from the men he had once criticized. Mixed with ethyl silicate (a chemical binder used in making industrial plaster molds), his paints were more durable than car enamel. Rain splashed down on the mural every day last week, but failed to wash anything away...
Construction. The AEC tells little about its vast building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...