Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home laundry equipment that will automatically pick up, sort, clean, iron and fold the wash; cleaning machines that will wash, rinse and dry a kitchen floor in minutes...
...physicists of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, armed themselves with AEC money and went hunting neutrinos. Their first attempts, with a monstrous assembly of special apparatus, were inconclusive (TIME, May 10, 1954). They thought they detected neutrinos streaming out of the AEC's great reactors at Hanford, Wash., but they were not sure. So they returned to Los Alamos and constructed an even more monstrous apparatus...
...yield to a woman's tears. "Give her an opportunity to regain self-control. Let her know you're available to discuss anything she wants to bring up. Explain the situation in detail. Above all, don't dismiss a tearful girl with an offhand: 'Go wash your face; you'll feel better.' Reconcile yourself to the fact that in most cases the cause of a woman's tears are beyond your control...
Housewife Peggy Nelson stared moodily at the mosquitoes swarming up out of the stagnant pond near her home in the little lumber town of Snoqualmie, Wash, and came to a decision: either she or the wretched puddle must...
When he is not trying to wash off all that bear fat from Princess Sunday, big dimwit David is trying to hold up his end of the fur trade against the encroaching North West Company-or "pedlars," as they are called by Hudson Bay's old guard-and H.B.'s head man, Lord Selkirk, a contemptible character who weighs only 110 Ibs. While brooding on his diet ("In a day or two he intended to eat an entire raw liver, for he had been feeling groggy lately; a straight meat diet was getting him down"), David manages...