Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Saucers have been reported over China, but we have been troubled by Flying Thudwunks-or, as the Chinese call them, Celestial Whang-bongs. Our one-eyed wash coolie, Yeh, sighted an unusual bright green Thudwunk two evenings ago whizzing across the thatched roofs of the native village next door to our house on Columbia Road-or, as the Chinese call it, Pan-yu Lu-and has become, as a result, a neighborhood hero...
...Grimes, white-haired, pipe-smoking business agent of the Mt. Vernon, Wash. (pop. 4,278) carpenter's union, had to admit that he was doing some strange thinking. But a question kept bothering him: Did his union really want a raise? It was theirs for the asking. One clause of their contract with building constructors called for salary adjustments based on increased living costs; on that basis they had 13? an hour more coming to them. But Grimes knew what costs were doing to the building trade. Would they get as much work if they charged...
Koreanizers. In Korea, Baldwin was shocked at repressive measures used by the military government. "There is no spirit of crusade in Korea. We started out not with the idea of democratizing Korea but of Koreanizing it. We would pick Koreans-the wrong kind-for administrators, then wash our hands of responsibility for what they...
...Vandenberg for the privilege of trying to beat Truman; it won't be easy." To the list of Democratic vice-presidential prospects, "I should add the generally overlooked name of Governor Mon Wallgren of Washington State; indeed I should place his name high on my list." (In Olympia, Wash., Governor Wallgren promptly announced that he would accept...
...halfway mark the two early leaders of the pack, little Dick Metz and big Chick Harbert, went haywire-they could not keep up their sub-par pace. Golfers who still had a chance to win drifted into the clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...