Word: laundering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...someone takes his place." They work in small factories, soldering lipstick cases making zippers or paper boxes, packing vegetables or candy. They dig ditches and work ships. Often, they are the big city's men behind the scenes. They wash the dishes, make the beds, clean the offices, launder the clothes, change the tablecloths. All in all, the Barrio seems a disappointing promised land. Nearly half of the immigrants live doubled up, or take in boarders. The average family income is only $36 a week, and 40% make less than $30 a week. The Barrio's death rate...
...available, and carried no food except some meal and corn into the wilderness with him. In winter he wore three or four wool shirts at a time; to keep them clean enough to suit him, he merely rotated them from skinside to outside, let the elements launder them...