Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seattle, Wash...
After hissing impatiently behind the scenes for 17 months, the Air Force's hottest jet bomber-the experimental Boeing XB-47 Stratojet-whipped into public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...
Higher Learning. In Olympia, Wash., St. Martin's College devoted its regular weekly science seminar to a new subject: "The mathematical analysis of a crap game...
Through three furious days of politicking, not one committeeman had any real praise for Tom Dewey. Even Hugh Scott, fighting to save his own neck, scrubbed frantically to wash off the Dewey colors. Dewey, he cried, "should not, could not, and will not be a candidate in 1952 . . . We've suffered because we tried to me-too the New Deal. I announce here and now that there's an end to that." No one else had a good word for me-tooism either: most everyone talked as if the party only needed to have been forthrightly conservative...
...smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could buy more cigarettes. Between noisy puffs, he chews melon seeds or peanuts. Until recently, when his doctors made him slow up, he used to wash down his heavy meals with kaoliang (grain liquor). Since then Mao has become something of a hypochondriac...