Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drivers, newspaper deliverers, gas-station employees, airline stewardesses and meat packers. The city's Local 727 goes by the somewhat unbelievable official name of "The Auto Livery, Chauffeurs, Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Apprentice Ambulance Drivers and Helpers, Taxi Cab Drivers, Miscellaneous Garage Employees, Car Washers, Greasers, Polishers and Wash Rack Attendants Local." In Michigan recently, state police sergeants and lieutenants voted for Teamster affiliation-and got it. In California, the Teamster net covers scientists, nurses, firemen, even district attorneys...
...also might feel about it. The janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs of resilient wood so that convalescents would not touch cold steel frames...
...suffering through one of its muggiest summers in years, the indomitable Dame has been arriving for work promptly at 8 a.m. and surprising her co-stars and Director Bryan Forbes with her endurance. "Feel fit, and you are fit," she explained simply. And her secret for good health? "I wash my face in cold water every morning and that...
...perpetual tension between the dark and the light; the wrestling match between Christ and Satan; and finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through a hot wash of blood which, deny it though we will, fascinates us nearly to the point of shame...
When citizens of Bellingham, Wash., first saw great clouds of smoke rising at least two miles above Mount Baker, 30 miles east of the city, some thought that there must be a forest fire. But that was in March, and the smoking has not stopped since. One of a dozen major volcanoes in the western U.S., the 10,778-ft. Mount Baker is now venting several thousand pounds of sulfurous gases and debris every hour. Right below the mountain's summit, the 1,600-ft.-wide crater is so thick with fumes that geologists can enter only with...