Word: washings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent, sensitize a glass plate, place it in a holder and rush it to his bulky camera before it had a chance to dry. Then he had to develop it immediately and fix it and wash it right on the spot. This was the same laborious process used by Mathew Brady's photographers in the Civil War, a dozen years before...
...hardly been inside a hospital before," recalls Cheshire. "I had to learn how to wash him, how to make his bed, as well as cook and do the housework and the garden. But somehow it worked. Arthur [the patient] thought he was alone in the world and nobody wanted him. Then he found that I wanted him. And it made all the difference...
Only one varsity tennis player will enter the NCAA tennis championships at Seattle, Wash., June 21. He is Donn Spencer, of near-by Tacoma, Wash. Two freshmen, Langdon Smith and Steve Gottlieb will compete for the ELAC championships at West Points June...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...
Boeing Airplane Co.'s engineers lined the runway at their Renton, Wash, plant one sunny day last week to see their swept-wing 707, the first U.S. jet tanker-transport, get ready for her maiden flight. As they watched, Chief Test Pilot Tex Johnson gunned the four engines from an idling whine to a full roar, let the big jet sweep down the runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon...