Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czars allowed the Jews to live. His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism and anarchism with his friends. The Weizmann home was almost always in an uproar. "They...
...pistol-brandishing robber held up the Seaboard Finance Co. in Tacoma, Wash., found there was only $100 in the till, muttered: "It isn't worth it," and stalked out emptyhanded...
...familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...
...Never to Return." Many were forced to become Christians. It was said of the converts, however, that, as soon as they were baptized, they went home to wash off the holy water and that they secretly practiced their old religion. A saying of the day held: "There are three ways of wasting water-by the running of a river to the sea, by diluting wine, and by baptizing...
...inch tube of trans parent plastic with a detachable nozzle on one end and an expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...