Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BEHRNS, M.D. Mount Vernon, Wash...
...lived for 42 years. His wife, also an artist, poses for most of his figures, as she did for the woman in the window in Cape Cod Morning. "It's a woman looking out to see if the weather's good enough to hang out her wash," she explains. "Did I say that?" Hopper rumbles in contradiction. "You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window...
...ward itself is by no means a "mess." It is not even drab any more, for the volunteers have gone to work with brushes and paint and put colorful murals on the pale green walls. One attendant explained that the volunteers had offered to wash off the pictures, "but the patients," she said, "wouldn't have it, and the paintings are still here. They really brighten the place up, you know...
...richest, widest realm. It is eighty times the size of the mother country, and half again as populous. Booming Congo exports provide the dollars and pounds that make the Belgian franc one of the world's hardest currencies. Belgians drink Congo coffee, wear shirts made of Congo cotton, wash them with soap made from Congo palm kernels. Without the mighty Congo, little Belgium might go broke; with it, a nation of 9,000,000 still counts as a world empire...
...Administration has also revived last year's plan to get the Government out of the business of running two "atom cities"-Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash. At the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Democratic heads of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week introduced bills to end Government ownership and operation of Oak Ridge and Richland. The responsibility for schools, streets, etc. would be handed over to local residents, eventually saving the Federal Government upwards of $1,500,000 yearly...