Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straws in the Wind. In Lynden, Wash., Tribune Advertiser Jake Bovenkamp offered to sell 120 tons of hay, preferably "to Republicans only...
Pigskin Parade. In Mount Vernon, Wash., police nabbed Robber George Brodeur, who happily told them: "I'm glad you got me. I'm cold, I'm hungry, and I want to get back to McNeil Island [federal penitentiary] in time for spring football practice...
Steamroller. Many U.S. newsmen and politicians who have followed the course of the U.S.'s well-intentioned reach for international press agreements, now demand the U.S. wash its hands altogether of further attempt to legislate press freedom.* But the State Department, Binder and others argue that the U.S., trapped, now has no choice but to go on. It must stay in the fight and try to kill the restrictive convention or it will be steamrollered through, virtually unopposed...
When, out of the sun at noon, sometimes she stole down over the rocks and past the cliff-edge, down to the deep gully where the lemons hung in cool eternal shadow; and in the silence slipped off her wrapper to wash herself quickly at one of the deep, clear green basins, she would notice, in the bare green twilight, under the lemon leaves, that all her body was rosy, rosy and turning to gold ... And she would rub a little olive oil in her skin, and wander a moment in the dark underworld of the lemons ... laughing to herself...
Shock Treatment. In Bellingham, Wash., for the walls of the jail's cell for drunks, Police Chief George Houde ordered appropriate decoration: pink elephants and green snakes...