Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe for years, did not take hold in the U.S. until the late '30s, after most of the nation's virgin timber had been cut. In 1941, the Weyerhaeuser Co. took the first big step; it laid out the first tree farm in Grays Harbor County, Wash...
Married. Clyde Beatty, 45, the big top's No. 11ion & tiger trainer; and Mrs. Lorraine Abel, 29, nightclub singer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Bellingham, Wash...
...Ordered the construction of a $900 million factory near Aiken, S.C., a new $50 million U-235 plant at Paducah, Ky., and $200 million additions to both the original Oak Ridge plant and the Hanford, Wash. plutonium works...
...Only my suit and shoes were left to me when I was shoved into a 6 ft. by 9 ft. cell . . . The next ten days I was not allowed to wash, and my menu comprised black bread and water three times a day. The worst of it, however, was the endless routine, repeated every six minutes, of the steel peephole being opened and clanged shut. Finally, I was again cleaned up and shaved and led before the chief of the secret police. I was apparently ready to be hopped up and groomed for my trial...
...down (Rotzleisch).' " In his constant pursuit of One-Upness, the sound Lifeman first of all makes his opponent (i.e., everybody) feel like an idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown off his stride by the Lifeman's "I knew as soon as I came in you were happy. You-you look so natural ... Go ahead...