Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprisal. In Tacoma, Wash., Traffic Patrolman U. Drivewell slapped a ticket on Army Sergeant I. Walk...
Irresistible. In Tacoma, Wash., handsome Policeman Patrick O'Malley, walking his beat, was hugged by a pretty, impulsive blonde, dutifully had her fined $15 and costs for disorderly conduct...
...that had brought them from torn Europe. In New York harbor a police launch sped to investigate a rumor that had swept through the Wall Street crowds: a German submarine had surfaced, flying a white flag. What the harbor police found: a Navy vessel, with the sailors' Monday wash...
Chairman. When one after another failed to muster a majority, it looked as though the meeting would wash out with a rain check. But the Yankees' new boss, irrepressible Larry MacPhail, demanded action, and threatened to "lock the door and keep it locked" until a new commissioner was named...
...dusk fell over the little one-street town of Pleasanton (pop. 2,073), 5° plain Texans gathered in the white frame First Baptist Church. Many of the men-ranchers, merchants, peanut farmers, railroad workers-were in shirt sleeves. Their women wore wash dresses. They had come to pray for the success of the San Francisco conference...