Word: washing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Around the 4th Infantry Division noncommissioned officers' club at Fort Lewis, Wash. last winter, the word was out: "See Coogan if you want to go overseas," maybe to a cushy assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good record, had the expert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B. Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for overseas billets...
Main problem facing the restorers was to find a substitute for the outer dome (the ornately decorated inner dome will remain in place). Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down...
...Translation: "Wash all the time with Palmolive...
...most fervent opponents of splits are old-line managements who feel that the high price of a stock is synonymous with quality. Splitting a blue chip selling at $100 so that it sells at $20 would wash out its blueness. Superior Oil of California takes a defiant pride in the fact that its stock sells at $1,850 a share...
...communicate a general impression, 323 emanates one of personalized and some how incommunicable frustration with Harvard. Until the editors find out how to generalize from their own experiences, learn to document a serious argument, and learn to recognize an important issue, they will have to be content with white-wash, spotted here and there with blotches of unhappiness. When they do learn about these things, they may produce a really interesting publication...