Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under a "drought bill" that grants regional authorities the power to ban nonessential uses of water, Welshmen have been forbidden to water lawns, wash cars or fill swimming pools. Anyone caught hosing his garden is subject to an $800 fine. Beginning last week, more than a million Welsh residents are getting water only between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., and this week some factories will go on compulsory half-rations. "There are no baths, and clothes don't get washed so often," says Cardiff Housewife Elizabeth Davies. "I used to use the washing machine every...
...precautionary measures as a "rumor control center." "You just have to sit and answer call after call from the concerned people," said the supervisor of such a center in Tampa. Of those school districts surveyed, 82% desegregated without serious disruption. The report specifically cites Tampa, Stamford, Minneapolis and Tacoma, Wash., as cities where the desegregation plans worked well because of community support...
...sleep very well, I just wash those things out of my head...
...damaged or declared unsafe, looked like a gigantic refugee center. Fearful of further shocks, millions of residents set up temporary housekeeping in parks and streets; some 3,000 foreign residents camped in the courtyards and on the tennis courts of their embassies. Cooking utensils and beds were brought out, wash lines strung from pillars to posts, and mosquito nets slung over tree branches. Some Chinese fashioned lean-tos by resting raw lumber against walls, others by cutting down tree branches; at least one family settled down for the duration in a section of a huge drainpipe...
...ditty: a popular night for pah-ties, though in Wash-tin, pah-ties are often thrown on Mun-dee, Toos-dee. We's-dee, Thush-dee, Frah-dee and Sun-dee as well...