Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuff is there, but you haven't told us where you found it or where we might come in contact with it," the husband of an American journalist protested to Charge d'Affaires Combs. Asked what precautions to take, Charles Brodine, a State Department doctor, could only suggest lamely, "Wash your hands frequently with soap and water...
Cleaning the car used to be simple, just a glide through the local car wash for $5 or so. Now, thanks to upscale urges, the latest rage is a serious auto grooming from gas cap to hood ornament, which can cost as much as $160 and take half a day. The process, called detailing, has long been employed by used-car dealers to prepare old models for their lots, and is now offered by more than 4,000 shops across the nation, according to the California Carwash Association...
...Europe and Canada. Today, most are Mexicans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Koreans, Indians, Chinese, Dominicans, Jamaicans. They scramble up across the border near San Ysidro, Calif., in the middle of the night. They get off their jets and stream through Customs at Kennedy. They arrive in the trunks of cars or wash up in foundering boats on the Florida Keys...
...intransigent. As it turned out, the Iranian "students" used the hostages as pawns to consolidate Khomeini's power and to drive from government moderates like Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, the Foreign Minister who had the temerity to bargain with "the Great Satan." Trying to avoid a similar fate, Berri threatened to "wash his hands" of the whole affair and turn the hostages over to their original hijackers unless the U.S. arranged a "swap" with the Israelis...
Proponents of divestiture, likewise, have proven all too willing to rest on the simple argument that South Africa is immoral and that we should wash our hands of any injustice. The pro-divestiture case is far more compelling when argued from a practical standpoint and as part of a wider program of activism that includes federal sanctions on trade with South Africa...