Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topic for Today. In Mount Vernon, Wash., a man arrested on a street corner for disturbing the peace was identified as an Indian named George Everybody Talks About...
...explain the discrepancy between his white moustache and black hair and to deny again the rumor that his hair is dyed. Said he: "My moustache is white from kissing the girls. But my hair is true black. Anyone is welcome to come with alcohol, with shampoo, with anything, to wash my hair and prove...
...believes that Soviet power is an expression of the 'emerging forces of popular revolt'. . . In the literature of appeasement before World War II, there was at least a note of genuine tragedy. It was never, as I recall it, argued that the wave of the future would wash us clean...
...dust blown into the air might paint a broad band of silent death many miles downwind. The only safe way to simulate such an explosion is to use a "low-order" chemical explosive and scale up its effects theoretically to full atomic proportions. Last week at desolate Buckhorn Wash, Utah, Army engineers came the closest yet to simulating an atomic blast...
Shock Test. In atomic lingo, a "nominal" bomb is the one used at Hiroshima, which released as much energy as 20,000 tons of TNT. The Buckhorn Wash "bomb" (160 tons of TNT) released 1/125th as much energy. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful...