Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have any theories about that? Is it that if you wash or use a towelette you have to wash your hands afterward and its inconvenient...
...dead in Viet Nam. In the conservative city of Los Alamos, N. Mex., housewives agreed to block a bridge leading to local defense plants while carrying signs: HELP STOP THE WAR. Students from Gonzaga University and Whitworth College organized a march to the federal building in Spokane, Wash., where they would wear white armbands speckled with blood...
...WELL. I can wash out forty-four pairs of socks and hang'em on the line, Y'know I can wash and iron two dozen shirts 'fore you can count from one to nine. I can slip up a great drip off along from a drippin's can, Throw it in the skillet, do the shoppin', and be back before it melts in the pan, 'Cause I'm a woman. W-O-M-A-N, let me tell you again...
...apron outside Boeing's plant in Everett, Wash., 15 enormous 747 jets stand high and silent, harbingers of a new era in aviation. They are painted in the colors of several international airlines: TWA, Pan Am, Lufthansa, Air France. For the moment, however, the planes are the world's largest gliders -because they have no engines. Pan Am had been scheduled to get the first three commercial giants, each with a capacity of 362 passengers, in late November. Last week embarrassed Boeing officials said that performance difficulties in the Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines would delay that delivery...
...still has to budget $800 a year for electrical repairs. The chief of operations for a U.S. oil company was dismayed to find the plumbing so erratic in his villa on Rome's Via Appia Antica that for a time he stocked bottled water for guests to wash in. When William Wyman, vice president of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, rented an apartment in Düsseldorf, he and his wife discovered that the rent was only the beginning of their housing costs. "Not only did we have no appliances, but we had to buy the kitchen sink," says Mrs. Wyman...