Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Branching out, he tried to swallow up a small union of hair-wash demonstrators. Caldwell men made such alleged threats as: "Nice lookin' legs you got in them silk stockings, babe. How do you think they are going to look when we break them for you?" But the hysterical women raised such a shriek that Mr. Caldwell retired. Anyhow, he soon had his hands full with his store clerks, who had revolted and were demanding an accounting of some $910,000 which they had paid to Mr. Caldwell in dues. Further embarrassing Mr. Caldwell, State officials raided a safe...
Chen's wife next day went to see her husband. She knew that he could not rest quietly in the good earth without his head. Tucking a wash basin and a bottle of alcohol under her arm, she trudged off to Japanese headquarters at Taichow. From a Japanese officer she demanded the head of her husband. The officer refused...
Then Chen's wife put down the wash basin. She pulled a dagger from the sleeve of her cotton gown and spoke quietly. She said that if she were not given her husband's head she would add to his corpse two dead bodies, hers and the officer's. The Japanese officer took the head from a basket and gave...
Carefully placing the head in the wash basin, Chen's wife soaked it in alcohol and took it back to her village. There she sewed it to the neck and buried body and head. Now Chen and his head rest in a grave no different from thousands of others that dot the green hills of China...
Second, and just as important, camp taught the 115 cadets what the life of the ordinary soldier is. They got up at 5:40, at out of their tin messkits and lined up to wash them, did K.P. dug ditches, drove trucks, stood guard, and stood inspection. They learned to do calisthenics while their eyes were so full of sleep that they couldn't see the officer leading them. They learned to curse, literally like troopers. They learned what a Wellesley Freshman feels like checking out of camp and back in the latter...