Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contingent was trained in Lincoln Park to control crowds, administer first aid and break through police lines. Using a technique perfected by Japanese students, they locked arms and snake-danced around baseball dia monds, chanting ''Wash-air (a Japanese expression urging enthusiasm). They also practiced karate. "To remain passive in the face of escalating police brutality is foolish and degrading," said David Baker, a Committee leader from Detroit, who was leading the practice. "The advice used to be that you should give police a flower and say 'Hello, brother.' But it didn't stop...
...Garden State Arts Center near New Bruns wick became the pride of New Jersey. Focal point of it all was a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater designed by Edward Durell .Stone, 66, and to everyone's embarrassment, the very first performance in the craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle the deluge. Water cascaded across the stage, splashed like a waterfall over the concrete...
...arrived at the airport, I got a ride from a friend of someone I knew on the plane. The man, born in Georgia, had a Wallace sticker on his car. He drove us back to his house for a drink and while there said, "Excuse me, I have to wash my hands. I shook hands a while back with a nigger." Of course, I thought it best to say nothing to him about his politics. But three days later I feel the same way about the whole GOP convention...
...surprised that you suggested no escape plan for the average CEBUS victim. Mine is workable, simple, and guaranteed to trim the waistline while liberating the mind from ugh-plugs. For women, the average battery of three commercials per station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief...
...Seattle, Wash...