Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting Firemen. Near Sprague, Wash., the Ritzville fire department, 20 miles out of its way and lost on a back road, encountered the Sprague fire department, lodged in a mudhole...
Oust to Oust. In the Yakima (Wash.) Herald appeared a want ad: "SUCKERS ONLY. We drink, smoke, gamble and use profane language. We have two children, a boy and a girl who are professional housewreckers, breaking anything handy. We have been ousted from every house we have rented, but still need a place to call home. Does anybody have courage enough to rent us a furnished two-bedroom house...
...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...
...discipline. Subject matter is imposed. ... In the Army, if you haven't 'what it takes,' you 'wash out.' The Essentialists now have hosts of allies, but therein lies the danger. . . . The Progressive point of view deserves recognition . . . can claim some enduring values. . . . After the war . . . Progressives should have an important part. . . . Essentialists may feel justified [but] should avoid . . . throwing out the baby with the bath...
...welter of contracts, and awards, Standard Stock Catalogs, and Pratt and Whitney engine spares . . . out of the chaos of birthday parties at ten o'clock, baseball games at three, telephone calls in the alcove with wet wash slapping one in the face, lusty singing through the streets of Cambridge to the continued amazement of the elder citizenry, not to speak of grubby, small boys who want to know if we are WACS . . . out of the pleasant overtones of cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs...