Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly won't wash. However virtuous Junior's conduct during the preceding year may have been, a bout with Krampus usually leaves him shattered but determined to improve...
...glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...
...talked to the voters. "I love to shake the hands-the dirty hands -with the mud of the poor farmer. I love to shake the greasy hands of the mechanic. Although they are poor, I love to shake those hands rather than the hands of the Quirino politicians, who wash their hands ten times a day-perfumed hands washed with the best kind of soap...
...Times (circ. 8,930) into a daily that nets close to $75,000 a year and has a brand-new plant. From his publishing earnings Sackett has also picked up control of two money-making radio stations, and now has an option on a TV station in Vancouver, Wash, as well as the San Leandro, Calif, daily News-Observer (5,473). In periods of expansiveness. Sackett has been known to roam the coast picking up options to buy papers as lightly as he tosses off philosophic oratory from William James, Santayana or John Dewey. Six years ago in Seattle...
Below Par. In Yakima, Wash., Mrs. Ivon Cooper, 32, showed up at the local hospital, said she "hadn't been feeling well" since she fell off her roof three days before, was put to bed when doctors found she had a fractured skull, a broken ankle, two broken fingers...