Word: washing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unclear as yet was whether winner Jimmy Carter, the former Georgia governor who finished with 30 per cent of the vote, can maintain his delegate lead in upcoming primary contests against the full field of Democratic aspirants--including conservatives George Wallace and Sen. Henry Jackson (D.-Wash...
...There is a fundamental difference on the radical left," Wilson says, over the question of the primacy of the environment or an innate nature in determining behavior. "Human nature is an unproved question," he goes on. A debate between radicals on the issue would "wash out the political views" and show that the argument is not a political one, Wilson says. Until such depoliticized discussions occur, says Wilson, he is afraid that he will "have to keep saying 'No, I'm not a reactionary,' and 'No, I'm not for Reagan,'" to those who question his objectivity...
When Evergreen School District officials in Vancouver, Wash, were notified that their new Riverview Elementary School had been selected as a finalist for an architects' award as the best designed school in the nation, they were bemused. Drawings, blueprints and photographs of the school will be hung at a meeting of the American Association of School Architects in Atlantic City next month, and a winner will be selected. There is, however, one problem with Riverview. The district's beleaguered taxpayers last spring voted down a $3.6 million bond issue to pay for operating the school. Result: its playground...
...earn second incomes in families that already have a breadwinner employed. These people tend to change jobs frequently and move in and out of the unemployment category. A poorly educated, unskilled black or a teenager, for example, may alternate between a few weeks of work at a local car wash when it is especially busy, and a few weeks on the unemployment rolls...
Here is Tiepolo's delight in wide, airy high space working as effectively in a brisk pen-and-wash sketch as on a Venetian ceiling...