Word: washing
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...this day, Jerry Kennedy only does laundry when it rains. For the first 54 years of his life, he lived without running water, and rainstorms were the only way he could collect enough water to wash his clothes. But Kennedy isn't from some far-off rural outpost. He was born and raised in the Coal Run neighborhood of Zanesville, Ohio - a former coal-mining center of 25,000 in the eastern part of the state - just a few hundred feet from a municipal water line. Kennedy, now 58, is black. His neighbors, who did not have running water...
...decided to do it after those murders at Fort Bragg," said retired general B.B. Bell, who initiated mandatory counseling when he commanded the U.S. Army in Europe. (Bell was referring to the three returning soldiers who murdered their wives in 2002.) There is a similar program at Fort Lewis, Wash. According to Dr. Charles Hoge in the New England Journal of Medicine, such programs can significantly reduce the number of soldiers reluctant to go for counseling...
...seeking employment. Levying a hefty fine on employers who hire them--and no excuses for doing so--would do a lot toward deterring illegals' entry. No jobs, not so many illegals. And some of those who are here would want to go home. W.B. McLain, YAKIMA, WASH...
...consider yourself a Democrat now or an independent? Lainey Sickinger RENTON, WASH...
...followed his natural humorous tendency to denounce folly and iniquity in all directions. This is what he was doing in Following the Equator when he wrote, "All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, however insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty, occupies a foot of land that was not stolen. When the English, the French, and the Spaniards reached America, the Indian tribes had been raiding each other's territorial clothes-lines for ages, and every acre of ground in the continent...