Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, visited Jack in Perth. "I'm on my way to England," Marshall said. Curtin looked out the window, at the endless, cloudless western sky. "Isn't there room enough in Australia?" he finally asked. "Not for me," 'retorted Marshall. "Australia's in the back wash. It's back of beyond of even the fringe of things that matter. I want to be where history is written...
...coastal strip ten miles deep and running all the way from The Wash, on the east coast, around to Land's End, westernmost tip of England, was closed to civilian visitors; even the local residents were forbidden to have binoculars...
Born in Washington, D.C., Eric Johnston came by his faith in individual enterprise in the standard U.S. tradition. His tubercular father moved to Montana, then to Spokane, Wash., then on again, this time leaving his wife and small son to shift for themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service...
...Sacramento Union, Sports Editor Dick Edmonds and a 30-year-old baseball maniac and nightclub owner named Yubi Separovich bemoaned the end of the world: Sacramento's "Solons" were no more. The St. Louis Cardinals, owners of the club, had sold their Pacific Coast League franchise to Tacoma, Wash., for $50,000. In three days, P.C.L. directors would meet to approve the transfer, the stadium probably would be torn down, the ball park subdivided for postwar real estate...
...trigger fingers and the palms of western cougar hunters itched at the news. For the biggest cougar kill of the season (eight cats-in nine days), Jesse Stockdale and his son Url, of Twisp, Wash, this week got a $400 bounty check-$50 a carcass-from the State Game Department...