Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unbleached White. Some thought Rockwell better dead, and several made the attempt. "Stand next to me," he was fond of quoting. "I'm bulletproof." But as he backed his Chevrolet away from Arlington's Econ-o-wash laundry last week, two bullets fired by a rooftop sniper drilled the windshield. Sprinkled with soap flakes, the dying Nazi staggered from his car. His meager wash was inside the laundry, and his last words were to a 60-year-old grandmother. Said white supremacy's champion: "I forgot my bleach...
...look down on it. Now, I never wear hose. And the reason I do not wear hose is, No. 1, I have to shop for them and, No. 2, I have to wear them and they get runs in them and, No. 3, I have to wash them and take care of them. And then you have to have something to hold them up with. And that gets into a whole ... a whole way of life that I just don't have time for. But I love to see it-I love to see a beautiful woman...
...ensuing dialogue with his wife before She spots the daggers; and she finds that she has to pry them loose from his grip as though rigor mortis had set in. So traumatic has the experience been for him that she finally has to yank and drag him off to wash his bloody hands...
...said one woman, "my throat gets kind of sticky, so I go and get a big glass of ice water. Then I get a powerful desire for more." Some enthusiasts spice laundry starch with salt and pepper; others munch it with ice chips. A few housewives wash it down with Coke...
...Prescott sent his pilots barnstorming for business. The company hauled grapes from the West Coast to Georgia, took Elsie, the Borden Cow, from the East to a California county fair, even toted Roy Rogers' horse Trigger around the rodeo circuit. All the while, the hustling Prescott ("We would wash cars on Sunday morning if we had to") was buying up airplanes and "gambling that somehow we'd find a use for them." Not until 1949 did the company fly into the black -and it suffered losses a couple of times even after that...