Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soggy heat and humidity of late summer lay across the U.S. last week as parents bought new shirts and shoes and got ready to send their children back to school. From Key West, Fla. to Port Angeles, Wash, a record-shattering 41,533,000 students began to enroll in the U.S.'s often overcrowded and understaffed schools and colleges-1,754,300 more than last year, and an astonishing one-fourth of the nation's population. "It gets to be more fun each year," said Mrs. Creta McVean, teacher of the first grade of Dallas' James...
...Estes away with some difficulty, they entered a canary-yellow Cadillac to ride into Santa Fe for a public appearance on the Plaza and a La Fonda Hotel political conference with Democrats from seven states. Twenty-four hours and 1,107 miles later, the pattern was repeated: at Vancouver, Wash., where the conference with party leaders was delayed for 30 minutes while Estes shook hands...
...nation's Subversive Activities Control Board at a salary of $20,000 a year. Moved up from the Justice Department's Parole Board, Mrs. Lee, whose engineer husband has always encouraged her political activities, replaces another Republican from the Pacific Northwest, ex-Senator Harry Cain of Tacoma, Wash. Cain joined the board in 1953 as a far-right-wing Red hunter, gradually shifted his position until he bitterly criticized the Administration's loyalty-security program as too inflexible, finally resigned...
...Generation. Such overoptimism worries many observers even more than rising credit. While the rate of repayment on installment loans continues at a peak, they point out, a sharp dip in employment might bring on a wave of defaults that could wash in a recession-or worse...
...Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said the Briton later, "one of those things that could only have happened in this...