Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned to do the job had to go slow too-everyone who worked on the coat had to wash his hands every half hour to keep it white...
Aircraft companies, swollen with defense contracts, are now hiring any competent college graduate with engineering or scientific training. But pessimists in the field are grimly pointing to the days following World War II when aeronautical engineers were forced to learn the details of wash tub fabrication in order to keep their jobs in a rapidly shrinking industry...
...farmland were flooded with salt water in England, and more than a million left homeless. But the worst North Sea storm in 250 years left in its wake, as well, some stirring sagas of heroism. One such was that of U.S. Airman 3rd Class Reis Leming, of Toppenish, Wash. Said one admiring Englishman last week: "If anybody ever deserved the bloody George Cross, he does...
...comrades whose wives these were had other rough & ready ways after years of guerrilla society. They used floor rugs as blankets and toilets as wash basins. At a hospital, Liu found the comrade "nurses" ripping the labels off the medicines and reclassifying the bottles according to four sizes and five colors. As for such high-reform," sounding most old government comrades projects as treated them "agrarian as rackets. When a mock trial with agitator witnesses led to a landlord's being beaten to death or shot, the party members div vied the land and farm implements among his neighbors...
...relaxation." One woman who objected to this schedule was released from Liu's group with a letter of condemnation. No school or employer dared to take her on, and she was soon utterly destitute. By this time, Liu had become adept at turning out the kind of prop wash the party liked, but he wondered "how long it would be before the pressures on my own mind and the conflicts in my own heart and feelings would become in tolerable...