Because humans are not alone in exhibiting such behavior--bees stockpile royal jelly, birds feather their nests, mice shred paper-...-it's possible that a pregnant woman who scrubs her house from floor to ceiling [just before her baby is born] is responding to a biological imperative . . . . Of course there are those who believe that . . . the burst of energy that propels a pregnant woman to clean her house is a perfectly natural response to their mother's impending visit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to gove...rn this nation. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war," except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine 'em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no... war, you die with clean boots on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Angel of clean sheets, do you know bedbugs? Once in a madhouse they came like specks of cinnamon... as I lay in a chloral cave of drugs, as old as a dog, as quiet as a skeleton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.... He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this f...oreigner?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In New York--whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to... shame--not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the "haves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »