Word: washings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal Democratic leaders, including Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)--who head the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, respectively--all fell to GOP challengers...
...health and welfare and controlling the proliferation of its source constitute a great advance over boosting the production of a dangerously flawed system. By resisting the pressure from other nations to push ahead on nuclear energy, the U.S. is the champion, not the black sheep. Eric Gellert Mercer Island, Wash...
...familiar to serious students of poetry. Otherwise he is little known outside Poland and the Slavic language department of the University of California at Berkeley. Yet last week Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Chess-wahf Mee-wash), 69, an émigré poet-scholar and naturalized American citizen, won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people": so one medieval Irish text described the Vikings. "They are the dirtiest of God's creatures," sniffed Arab Historian Ibn Fadlan, who had seen and smelled a Viking encampment on the banks of the Volga in the 10th century, "and they do not wash themselves after sex." Thus, as Hilaire Belloc sardonically put it in our own century...
...dilemma of an art lover. Strolling one evening, he stumbles upon the Master doodling a huge mural in the French sand. Caught without a camera, the tourist moves slowly up and down the beach, trying to make a mental photograph of the masterpiece before a rising tide comes to wash it away...