Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Soviet military has shown no interest in matching the U.S. effort to develop small or "clean" atomic bombs. As far as Western intelligence can establish, the Russians' chief effort is to make the bombs for these bombers as big and dirty as possible...
...last week, reported United Press International in a dispatch datelined Seoul. But to one American newsman, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim G. Lucas, 45, the words must have had an odd ring. For the same demonstrators who were so kind to other foreign reporters had chased Lucas clean out of Korea...
...Lower West Side in a clutter of newspapers, bottles, unwashed dishes, dirty clothes and unfinished paintings that grew more frightening every year. He refused to let handymen in for necessary repairs, was so averse to housekeeping that he preferred to sleep on the floor rather than face putting a clean sheet...
...British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...
...Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...