Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Binks, Wash. 82 Olma, Brooklyn...
Your usually objective reporter on Medicine [TIME, Sept. 10] titillates [meaning "titters?"-ED.] as if he had sneaked into a burlesque or found himself in the ladies' wash room. The only amusing aspect of the farcical appraisal of psychoanalysis in "The True Freudians" is the reporter's stammering concealment of his own embarrassment and diffidence...
...their letters home, the Americans would remark that in Seoul the palaces face south, the city wall is all but gone, a tycoon is a yang ban, the favorite dish is shinsunro (beef, eggs, fish, chestnuts, etc.), the housewives wash their white clothes endlessly, and countrymen still wear miniature, translucent top hats, the traditional insigne of the married man. Very friendly people, too-everybody beaming and waving, and the children tagging along behind jeeps shrieking "Hello! hello...
...Spokane, Wash...
Railroad passengers who have long endured the lurching promiscuity of the open-section sleeper, the hop-skip-&-jump down the leg-barred aisle of a club car or the dubious amenities of a coach wash room are due for something better, and very soon...