Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seems that in the bill is a teensy clause authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to "develop and construct a civil supersonic transport." Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) who helped slip the seven words into the bill isn't sure what they mean; neither is the chief counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee who wrote...
Just who was this guy who came to Harvard to tell students about the futility of academic competition? If we all stopped struggling there would be no one to bake cookies and wash windows. Who would keep the world going while we sat and enjoyed total consciousness...
...returning home from the hospital after an operation. When she told Fish that she needed someone to clean her house but couldn't afford to hire help, a parishioner of Good Shepherd, who had a maid to do her own housecleaning, showed up to scrub the floors and wash windows. Fish will undertake any reasonable request: after one tearful teen-ager asked Fish to help explain a poor report card to his father, a sympathetic parent was found to escort the boy home...
Ageless, Endless. Recently, Wyeth has focused on portraits. His people are no longer elements of landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well. As his subject matter has become increasingly human, his painterly light seems to glow within his subjects rather than wash them from the outside. Wyeth himself believes that two of his recent works (see opposite) are his finest portraits...
...cook," she once said proudly. "I don't know how to wash. I have never sewn a stocking. My husband will have to give me a houseful of servants if he wants a hot dinner and clean clothes now and then." Most women who talked like that would drive their husbands to uxoricide, but fortunately, Italian Actress Rosanna Schiaffino, 26, married a well-heeled Roman producer who can afford to have someone else wash his shirts. Besides, Rosanna has other advantages, such as resembling Gina Lollobrigida and going out to earn her own stocking money. Last week the hard...