Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...some were in fact afraid that the report would turn out to be "a white-wash...
...expected it to be a white-wash job, said Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, and former teacher of Harvard's major course on race relations. He admitted that he had refused to cooperate with the Commission. "I did not think I would want to have my name associated with it," he said...
...government cannot wash the First Amendment out of this case by framing the indictment to charge a violation of law," Telford Taylor, counsel for Raskin, said a few minutes later. "If this isn't a first Amendment case, there is no such case...
...years have London audiences sat so awed and hushed as at the final scene of Mrs. Holroyd, in which the coal-blackened body of a miner (Michael Coles), the victim of a pit accident, lies on the floor of his shack while his widow (Judy Parfitt) begins to wash him, keening to herself...