Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentration would not hold, so he decided to close up his books for the night. He gathered up his soap, towel, toothbrush, and water mug and wandered out of his room down the hall towards the bathroom to wash...
Young said he established communication with the street people by reading them poems. "They were a fairly intelligent bunch of runaways," he says. "We got them to wash and not to cook openly in the building." Anyway, they played by the rules. But one day, Young got a call from the Cambridge police telling him to look out his window. Flames were leaping from the hall. The building was soon a charred shell...
...spotted something special in the gangly colt. The three retired to a motel room and a bottle of bourbon for the joyful chore of naming No. 128 and toasting future victories. They settled on Seattle Slew-after the sibilant city closest to the Taylors' home in White Swan, Wash, (pop. 400), and the swampy Florida bottom lands, or slews, where Hill was raised. Since then, Seattle Slew has given the Taylors seven occasions to hoist a glass in victory celebration, the best of all coming last Saturday at Churchill Downs: mint juleps...
...SEATTLE, WASH--Harry Bridges, the renowned left-wing labor leader, yesterday retired from the presidency of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union after 43 years in the post...
...visitors from Houston, looking for an excuse to take a short (100-mile) drive, attended the Antiques Fair and Winedale Spring Festival. They hoped to fleece the local merchants out of old buckets, ice chests and garden tools. "Hey, you know where I can get a deal on a wash kettle?" one city slicker asked General Store Owner Odies Schatte. "You're not gonna find one," said Schatte. "People bought them all up, drilled holes in the bottom and turned them into planters. If you had one, you'd probably be able to get $150 for it." Which...