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Word: wickedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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Some people think that Air-Wicks purify the atmosphere by "absorbing" unpleasant odors. Not so. Air-Wicks give off chlorophyll and other scents which neutralize other odors. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome Manhattan Republican Newbold Morris, billed as the chief investigator to purify the graft-ridden Truman Administration, last week was doing effective duty as an Air-Wick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Neutralizer | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

While the Republican Senators were working him over, Newbold, with the air of a man who was trying to make somebody else his Air-Wick, had started working over the President. As a guest on the television program Meet the Press, he coolly implied that Truman was holding out on him. He announced that he wanted any of 25,000 Government employees-to whom he has sent questionnaires-to be fired if they refused to tell all about their incomes. He added, threateningly, that he would quit if the President refused to act. He tramped on the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Neutralizer | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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