Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for this porter lack is the fact that, in another innovation this year, 80 or so students are doing part of the "dirty work" in the University's kitchens. As opposed to those who work in the serving lines, these men wash dishes, clean up, and scrub pots. They are paid 86 cents an hour and get the meals they work on deducted from their board bills...
...motels are blooming like red spider lilies in October, new stores are opening, restaurants are crowded, the sidewalks are flowing with women in shorts and halters and men in atom-flash sport shirts. Harry Truman promptly got into the gay spirit, appeared for a press conference wearing soft blue wash slacks, white shoes and a white tail-out shirt decorated with bright blue sea gulls...
...Word Unspoken. The Western plan was presented to the 60 nations of the U.N. with flourishes - in a formal American-British-French resolution, in a speech by President Truman from Wash ington, and finally in a cool, point-by-point Assembly address by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson...
...make the benefits universal, Konomi had even provided two mass bathtubs where, for little more than ten times what they would have to pay elsewhere, Tokyo's working classes could wash themselves without benefit of any Miss Turkos...
...first act there was no doubt about its reception. Each song was rewarded with salvos of wild cheers. Time after time, applause threatened to hold up the show. Mary Martin's I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair brought down the house. After the final curtain and a dozen curtain calls, Mary came on again, to join the house in a community sing of Wash That...