Word: cleanest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers were rounding up derelicts from the streets and paying them 500 each to register, even though they had not been in Chicago long enough to satisfy the residence requirement. Nevertheless, the 1968 elections apparently fell short of previous years when it came to dilly-Daleying. "This was the cleanest election we've had in Chicago in at least 20 years," said Charles Barr, head of a group of 5,000 Republicans who policed the polls. In response, Mayor Daley suggested-not without cause-that reporters should investigate why, in the era of the voting machine, officials in some...
...tried to match his mood. "You should never have had to run for President," he said. "You'd have made a perfect chief for the FBI." Replied McCarthy: "Of course, you're absolutely right." "The reporter," says Mailer, "looked across the table into one of the hardest, cleanest expressions he had ever seen. The face that looked back belonged to a tough man, tough as the harder alloys of steel, a merciless face and very just, the sort of black Irish face which could have belonged to one of the hanging judges in a true court of Heaven...
...consists of ships 25 years old or older, the Soviet navy's sur face fleet is sleek and modern. "Almost every time you go into a harbor," says U.S. Navy Captain Harry Allendorfer, an expert on Soviet seapower, "if there are no flag markings and you pick out the cleanest and best-looking ships, nine out of ten of them will be Russian...
...news to some Chicagoans, but Chicago is one of the cleanest cities in the U.S. So, on a year-round basis, are Riverbank, Calif., Muncie, Ind., Omaha, Neb., Paramus, N.J., Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn., and Grand Prairie, Texas. But none were quite tidy enough to win the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau's annual Cleanest Town award, subsidized by paint and varnish manufacturers, and presented by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman in Washington last week. The cleanest town in the U.S.: San Antonio, Texas...
...hero in black Brooklyn, but race is not his reason for being on the outside looking in. Mack Davis is a onetime All-America basketball star who got caught fixing games for the gamblers. Kicked off the court, Mack takes a job in a car wash ("I got the cleanest hands of any fixer around") and wears his cool like a man who couldn't care less. But he's crying on the inside, warming a cold old hope of playing with the pros. What happens to his hope is fast, funny, touching and, as Mack...