Word: washing
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Planters and merchants sipping pink gin on hotel verandas tend to grouse about federation: "It's all very well for the Colonial Office to wash its hands of these islands, but they're not leaving any protection for people of substance." The voters, too, proved unenthusiastic; only about a third cast ballots last week. But Britain is leaving the invaluable tradition of democracy and justice, and it will also subsidize the federation for a while. The next steps-inevitable because the Colonial Office wills it-will be slow withdrawals of Lord Hailes's power, followed eventually...
...Somebody told me at one time you were pumping gas and one of your students came in and asked for a tankful. How did you feel about it?" The reply: "Well, that doesn't happen very often, but it does bother you. I mean, they want you to wash the windowshield and check the oil-things like that. They give you the full treatment-checking the tires...
...called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around on the beach, shouting that There Is Nothing Like a Dame. But the picture spends most of its time with the nurse, who tells herself that I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, but then decides that I'm in Love with a Wonderful...
...black and "for sale." < Labor's Daily of Bettendorf, Iowa, a money-losing, nationally distributed tabloid for union members, whose fate is to be decided this week by a special A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee in Washington. < The eight-year-old Columbia Basin News (circ. 11,409), published in Pasco, Wash. The News has been heavily subsidized (at least $500,000) by the I.T.U., is being sued by the crusading Tri-City Herald (14,275), which charges that the I.T.U.-backed News has conspired to force it out of business...
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. (610-636 alt., est. 55,000 pop.), Madison Co. seat; 5 mi. from U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ballistic Missile Agency, Ordnance Guided Missile School; 2 R.R. lines (Southern Ry., Louisville and Nashville R.R.); 2 airlines (8 fits, out dly., incl. drct. srvce. to N.Y., Wash., Chi., Atlanta, Miami); Accoms.: 3 hotels, 21 motels; Local bus fare: 10?; Swim: muncpl. pools; Fish: Tenn. River; Yrly. evnts.: Catholic Festival (Aug.), co. fair (Sept.); i-hr. pkng. Imt. dwntwn.; Avge. temp.: 74.6 deg. summer, 50 deg. winter...