Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...began over again. By the end of the 1958 congressional session, the new FAA act was written into law and signed by the President. After aperies of talks with the President, Pete Quesada, already retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant general, resigned his Air Force commission, cut clean away from the military, and opened the FAA for business on Jan.1, 1959. "It was the hardest thing I ever did, resigning from the Air Force," says Quesada, "but the law [requiring a civilian head] was clear as hell." The law, by implication, also called for a strong, experienced administrator...
...vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide.' " Then he swiped at one of the candidates who had decided to sidestep the primaries: "Senator [Stuart] Symington said he hoped Wisconsin would be a good, clean fight-with no survivors...
...Test small, "clean" nuclear devices, but no big bombs...
...shares of some stocks can drive the stocks down several points. The drift has moved many professionals to sit on the sidelines and wait for a selling climax. In market folklore, a heavy trading day with the ticker running late on the down side is just the thing to clean out the fainthearted in one fell swoop, stop the market from dribbling lower every day. Since such a clean-out is impossible in the economy as a whole, the pessimists will have to bear their mood of uneasiness patiently until the dyspepsia passes...
...been named by the FTC: Life cigarettes, Rolaids, Carter's Little "Liver" Pills. What miffed Reeves most was that until two months ago, the FTC had usually tipped him and the advertiser that a complaint was coming, given them a chance to argue their case beforehand or to clean up the controversial ad and thus kill the complaint. This time, said Reeves, the FTC simply issued complaints...