Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every other day of the week for the past 18 years, he will sit in front of an 8-ft.-high stack of broadcasting gear from 6 a.m., when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand, he tells his listeners so: "And now I am closing. I have to go to the doctor. The kidneys or something, I forget." Then...
...event, the chaos aboard Flight 73 was all too real. "They herded us together and ordered us to lie down on the floor," recalled Dick Melhart, of Pullman, Wash., who had been thinking all day about how he should try to escape if the opportunity came. Said David Jodice, of Vienna, Va.: "They were shouting at us in pitch darkness, and then we totally panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac...
...Wash up and get ready for a terrific new band...
...East Room in the White House has heard it all. Abigail Adams flapping out her wash; the tramp of British troops setting fire to the place; cheers for Ulysses Grant, brought from the West to win the war; the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious kids; Truman's political cronies, with ample bourbon, bellowing their fealty; Nixon's house evangelists heaving and praying in the midst of Watergate. Conniving diplomats have come there, as well as big-time pols and heavy moneymen, all summoned for the payoff of a lunch or dinner at the very headwaters of U.S. history...
Already the Boeing Co. is shaping the spars and wing ribs in its Everett, Wash., plant for a new Air Force One, a 747-200B that will course the heavens with more range, communication, self-sufficiency and practical elegance than anything else in the sky. The contract let last week for the principal plane and a backup totaled $249.8 million -- a mind-boggling sum when one considers that Teddy Roosevelt, the first President to fly (19 months out of office), strapped himself into a spruce-and-wire rig down in St. Louis in 1910 and chugged over a field...