Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poulsbo, Wash...
...during the past 18 months she has been recycling occasional items from old columns. Landers asserts that the issues raised in the repeated items were still relevant. One such retread concerned a woman who-like a reader in 1967-was faced with that timeless quandary of whether to wash a banana after it had been peeled. "Millie in The Bronx," a fretful housewife whose letter ran in February, was rewhining the kvetch of "Irving's wife" 15 years earlier, namely, what to do with a husband who stopped off every night at his mother's for chopped herring...
Frank W. Goheen Camas, Wash...
Volunteers in Spokane, Wash., Muscatine, Iowa, and Washington led local tours of hypothetical nuclear devastation. Hundreds of black, helium-filled balloons were released in Houston and Chapel Hill, N.C., each balloon carrying a note about windswept nuclear fallout. In Belle Glade, Fla. (pop. 18,000), as in many communities, local churches sponsored a showing of The Last Epidemic, a film distributed by Physicians for Social Responsibility about nuclear war's medical horrors. Doctors from several hospitals described the same bleak scenario at a rally in Philadelphia...
...discourage borrowers, book thieves, or even honest readers who failed to wash their hands before letting their ringers do the walking, medieval scribes laid curses on their manuscripts. A typical example reads: "If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen...