Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they stood at attention, freshly shaved, in clean uniforms, stepping for ward precisely as their names were called: Staff Sergeant Jessie R. Drowley, of Luzerne, Mich., Pfc. William J. Johnston of Colchester, Conn., Technical Sergeant Forrest L. Vosler, of Livonia, N.Y., Lieut. Arnold L. Bjorklund of Seattle, Wash...
...Washing several thousand towels a day is a common occurrence in the daily University wash. Operating 24 hours a day with a crew of four men, the Field House laundry has had to step up its tempo to meet the increased towel demand brought about by the accelerated physical training program. Even during the past year, after the conditioning program had started, the increase has been parked. From July 1942 to July 1943 402,700 towels were washed, as compared to 331,625 during the previous year...
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...very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there are things a bloke has to do in the meantime. And even at home-lumme, I like that word for the way I live-there are letters to write and socks to wash or darn, and you can't do anything really, what with cocking your ear and being ready to streak for the Anderson...
...never, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk summoned his Cabinet. In a paneled drawing room at No. 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, under a staring portrait of late great Premier Wladislaw Sikorski, apostle of Russo-Polishrapprochement, the ministers listened to the news. President Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, a diehard Russophobe, rose theatrically, said coldly: "I wash my hands of this." Then he stalked out. But his colleagues stayed on for hours of bitter but subdued talk...