Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Qualification. In Spokane. Wash., a husband denied, during divorce proceedings, that he beat his wife over the head seven times with a broiler; it was only three times, he averred, and with a lunch bucket...
...over this waste is the Weyerhaeuser (pronounced "Warehouser") Timber Co., which owns 5% (about two million acres) of the timberland in Oregon and Washington. The world's biggest lumber firm, it devised a simple way to use sawdust, by pressing it into fireplace logs (Prestologs) at its Longview (Wash.) plant...
...Russians. Vienna is still plastered with red stars and pictures of Lenin and Stalin looking like stuffed dolls; but Viennese hopefully note that fading Russian street signs are not being repainted. Relations with the Russians have changed. Vienna boasts that it has civilized the Russians, has made them wash and pull up their pants, has taught them how to walk like Europeans (some Russians from the steppes had a curious gait, left arm and left foot swinging forward at the same time). Now, whenever shots are heard from Russian barracks, Viennese whisper: "Aha, a Russian who likes the West...
...American women carefully wash their faces and hands, but not their mouths, seldom their feet and even more seldom their bodies...
Until 18 months ago, bright-eyed Pierino Gamba seemed like an ordinary Roman boy of eight who had taken a few piano lessons. He hated to wash and he liked to play with his electric train. Then his father, a baker, decided that Pierino should become a conductor...