Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the Hotel de Ville, where they sleep huddled together with a flea-ridden dog, a clochard and his wife were equally insulted by the notion that they are redeemable. "It may be all right for the likes of you," said the woman, "but we don't like washing. When it gets too cold here, my husband insults a gendarme and he takes us to the police station for the night. But that's all right -they don't make you wash." A famed Parisian clochard is white-bearded "Père Noël," 63-year...
...China's gesture was a proclamation that it was ready to let go three of the 21 American P.W.s who had refused repatriation after the Korean truce and who now wanted to get out of Red China. Two of the P.W.s. Otho Bell of Olympia, Wash, and Lewis Griggs of Jacksonville, Tex., intended to come home to the U.S., although they knew that they might have to stand trial...
Steen's mill, the eleventh in the nation, will go into production next summer, will refine ore (by the sulphuric-acid leaching process) from Mi Vida and other mines in the Big Indian Wash district, as well as from AEC's nearby stockpile. To finance construction, Steen will borrow $3,500,000 from New York's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, $6,200,000 from the New York Life Insurance Co., thus bring a major insurance company into the uranium business for the first time. Steen need not worry about customers: AEC will take the mill...
...violently the cause of 20 scrubwomen who had been fired from the staff of Widener Library without advance notice or advance pay. Immediately students began to organize the Square Deal Association, whose members marched out into the Square attempting to solicit funds for the fired scrubwomen by holding out wash buckets to passers-by. Sufficient funds for the women were finally raised at the "Scrubwomen's Ball...
...everything came out in the wash. There still remains in the film a heavy deposit of double-entendre. George Axelrod's play, and the movie he wrote in collaboration with Director Billy Wilder, concerns a middle-aged Manhattan husband who spends the summer in the city while his wife and son are enjoying the Maine breezes. Into his enforced celibacy comes the girl upstairs, an uninhibited hoyden from Denver who powerfully blends naiveté with sex-she dunks potato chips in champagne, begs for "more sugar" in her martini, artlessly boasts of posing in the nude, feels that...