Word: washing
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Foes of the reform attack it as reactionary. Says Sociology Professor Orlando Patterson: "Arriving at some fixed notion of what constitutes an educated person-in this day and age. it just won't wash. It moves away from a view that learning to think for oneself is the key to a modern education...
What astonishes his European rivals is that he can be so good and still have so much fun. When he comes slashing down a mountainside, weaving expertly through the slalom gates, the handsome young man from White Pass, Wash., is obviously having a marvelous time. He skis, as one leading foreign coach puts it, "for sheer joy, unlike the Europeans, who often are driven by political, nationalistic or commercial pressures." At the age of 20, with his best years just ahead, Phil Mahre (pronounced mare) is already the finest American male skier in history, a solid gold-medal prospect...
Harvie Barnard Tacoma, Wash...
...strength forged in fighting, man's first competition. Ali tells how his daughter tried to thread a needle for several minutes, then gave up in frustration. "I spanked her and made her try again. It wasn't important for her to thread the needle, but it was important to wash away the taste of defeat. She had to learn she could not fail...
Only two weeks after she was awarded $160 a month in alimony in 1974, Mrs. Anna Northrup of Rochester, N.Y., began living openly with another man. In her new quarters, she shared a bedroom, cooked meals, did the wash and shared household expenses. Her former husband soon stopped the alimony, contending he was legally justified because she was "habitually living with another man and holding herself out as his wife," grounds for cutoff under state law. In a 5-to-2 decision last week, New York's highest court disagreed. The law provides a two-part test, the Court...