Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downtown Columbus, Ohio last week, the popular greeting was: "Have you been mentioned for Senator yet?" In Seattle, Wash., spectators along the route at the Governors' Conference parade shouted at Ohio's tousle-haired Frank Lausche: "Who are you going to pick...
...policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Wash...
...visit to Alaska, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Negro evangelist, chartered a plane, flew out over the Bering Sea, heaved out a watertight canister containing a Russian-language Bible. Elder Michaux's hope: that the Bible would wash up on Russian territory, and that "God would send the proper person to find it and get it to the people of Russia...
...When an airplane propeller, installed for sound effects, also sent its formidable wash across the astounded audience...
Tooting the Kazoo. "The Groaner," as ; he sometimes calls himself, was born in 1904, and grew up in Spokane, Wash. with his father, a fun-loving bookkeeper who played the mandolin, his Irish mother, a somewhat sterner type who often took a disciplinary switch to her children, and six other little Crosbys. He had, he says, a youth notable for dozens of odd jobs, a night in jail (for belting a police car with cinnamon buns), a day when he hurled the leg of lamb on the family board at his brother Everett, an intense hatred of mathematics, a propensity...