Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bobby-soxers, I think they are cute and I'll bet they wash their underwear...
Bremerton, Wash...
Rejection Slip. In Olympia, Wash., Bachelor Robert Wright, veteran of World Wars I & II, applied for a pension, was advised by the War Department that he had been killed in action, told that his widow should apply...
...offshore from the missions of the Moravian Brethren who came out from Germany to Christianize the Eskimos in 1764. Like the whites, the Eskimos are content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...
Strict inspection and regulation will be essential in the atomic age, for any place once contaminated with radioactivity is exceedingly hard to purify. Admiral Blandy's sailors tried fire-hoses and scrubbing brushes on radioactive ships. Like the blood on Bluebeard's key, the radioactivity would not wash away...