Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Johnson prepared to take over Labor Department administrative functions, "Lew the Laundryman" seemed ready to wash his hands of the whole distressing business...
Molotov and his leaders swiftly rent the ties that bound Russia-Czar, Church, family, village, the fatherland. The Communist Party established its own ties and it held on through foreign intervention and civil war. Unlike other revolutions, its victory did not wash away as the victors relaxed. The victors never relaxed. Though the Trotskyites scream to the contrary, Russia today has not departed far from the magnificent evil of Lenin's conception...
Jathedar Sohan Singh: to wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, which has 29,480 rhymed homilies. Sample: "At the throne of God, grace is obtained by two things: open confession and reparation for wrong...
Five. Home is Five's world, with mother as its center. Life is uncomplicated, in balance. Anxious to help and to please, he shuns pioneering, keeps his mother posted on his doings. Five likes to sleep eleven hours, eat plain food, ride tricycles, copy numbers and designs, wash himself (but he often gets stuck, scrubbing the same knee over & over unless mother helps...
...much more time than it takes to lay a keel, war-born Vanport City became Oregon's second largest city (pop. 39,000). When V-J day came and its Kaiser shipyard workers left, the city-midway between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, Ore.-began to die. Last week the joint was jumping again...