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Word: washings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their rigs through a closed course for time. Among other problems, they must parallel park, back into a loading dock and drive forwards and backwards through a serpentine course, around obstacles that allow only inches of clearance. The course is difficult, and even drivers with 20 years' experience sometimes wash...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Truck Roadeo: Driving, Dodging | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

...observation that he considers particularly telling, he can use it over and over in different pieces for different magazines without anyone really noticing. When the pieces are collected in book form, however, all of the writer's laziness and over-facile devices come out in the wash, and he can end up seeming much less thoughtful than a reader of his articles as they appeared would have remembered...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Man of Southern Distinction | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

...Olympia, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Unintelligible] moves [unintelligible] election [unintelligible] said it in its lead editorial today. Another "McGovern's got to change his position." That that would be a good thing, that's constructive. Ah, the white wash for change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Transcripts Released Yesterday | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

Indianola, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1974 | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

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