Word: washings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONTINUED U.S. involvement in the Indochina war is ironic for another reason. As the air war continues, the U.S. program to provide medical assistance to civilians injured during the war has been severely cut back. Senator Edward M. Kennedy has pointed out that "we cannot wash our hands" of the plight of these civilians...
...drifted toward the ceiling and softened the harsh fluorescent light in the crowded Lions Club in old Key West. The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died. The speaker was a stumpy, smoothfaced man who was as far away from his home in Everett, Wash., as he could be. His Adlai Stevenson-era button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer to your thinking than all of the other candidates...
...never talk about the war. I've got five minutes to wash and change and get out of the plant, and most of it is spent kidding around. We just kid and go home. We don't have time to talk about Viet...
Cutting Costs. Further to the right stands William Lynch, 18, a self-proclaimed "progressive conservative," who defeated the 60-year-old school board chairman in Bremerton, Wash., in a primary held last September. Lynch, clean shaven and neatly barbered, picked up many adult votes in that race and also in the general election by promising to hold down school taxes, back up teachers on discipline, and use undercover agents in schools to help control drugs. He has stuck to at least one of those campaign promises: he voted against a proposal to give teachers a pay increase that would mean...
...those at the meeting suggested that the hospitals themselves were to blame for the staph resurgence. The hospitals, they said, had taken the FDA's warning too literally by completely removing hexachlorophene cleansers from the nursery. The FDA, said a spokesman, only advised doctors and nurses not to wash babies with hexachlorophene; it never told them not to use the cleanser on their own hands...