Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Special Delivery. In Spokane, Wash., a porter stepped off a train to hustle some sandwiches, got left, gave chase in a cab, finally caught up six hours later, delivered the sandwiches, but couldn't quite pay the cab fare...
...then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting pretty ripe-I don't know how they stood the smell. Finally they let a doctor wash...
Fort Lewis, Wash...
...Case. In Spokane, Wash., Judge Lloyd I. Black heard with interest that a defendant before him was a victim of "plantar callosities bilaterally," inquired further, learned it meant "calluses-both feet...
...what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...