Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups like the Committee on the present Danger and the Coalition for Peace Through Strength have mounted massive propaganda campaigns to persuade the public that will, if adopted, critically undermine national security. These groups and their advocates in the Senate--including, among others, Senators Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)--have argued that the loss of American listening posts in Iran will make it impossible for the United States to verify Soviet compliance with the provisions of the treaty, despite the averrals to the contrary of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown and Secretary of State Vance...
That old refrain about the glory of Islamic contributions to world civilization during the Middle Ages [April 16] is getting tiresome. What have they given the world since then? It doesn't wash! No, the retrogression has been pronounced for 700 years, and your kindness to Islam as a civilizing faith is not warranted by recent events...
...hated and despised Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a security guard in Bellingham, Wash. "Ken doesn't know how to handle women," he snarled. "You gotta treat 'em rough." He spoke crudely of his sexual exploits with women and then said of Bianchi: "Boy, did I fix that turkey. I got him in so much trouble, he'll never...
...demonstrations--the beginning of a leftward course that, he says, has continued ever since. While a graduate student in physics here, Bernard worked during the 1976 presidential primaries for the left-populist campaign of former Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris. Most Massachusetts voters, however, supported Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), and then Gov. George C. Wallace or Jimmy Carter; Harris ran poorly...
...military neighbors were concerned, he might as well have bartered away Pentagon secrets. Explains Richard: "The husbands won't talk to me, because I do 'womanly' things and they work." And their wives are no more sympathetic, barely acknowledging his presence when he does the family wash in the basement laundry of the military apartment complex where the Venemas live. Nor is life any easier at the PX; every time Richard goes there he seems to have to explain to yet another puzzled clerk that his wife is the soldier, he the dependent. Grousing does not help...