Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILLIAM DEWOLF Kirkland, Wash...
...ZIMBELMAN Bremerton, Wash...
PAUL R. FOSSUM Tacoma, Wash...
...sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
...Pillars of Wisdom, "and like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves, they had been dashing themselves against the coasts of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed . . . The wash of [each] wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave...