Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five days later, in nearby Laurel, Negro Farmhand Howard Wash was found guilty of murdering his white employer. But the jury failed to agree on the punishment. Under Mississippi law, his sentence became life imprisonment...
...Tacoma, Wash...
...filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga is one of the daily necessities on Guadalcanal. Many of the men drive mud-covered jeeps and trucks into the shallow, pebbly stream and wash themselves, vehicles and clothes all at one session...
Corporal Ben Effros brought the house down. He phoned Mrs. Michael Sharlitt, director of Cleveland's Belle Faire Orphanage. Talking a bluestreak, he reminded "Mother" Sharlitt how she used to wash his mouth out for using cuss words, told her he had a sergeant "who would run her clean out of soap...
Leaping from their tanks, the crews take no time to wash the desert paste from raw faces. They seize shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...