Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish chamizal means brush patch, and a 600-acre strip of previously Mexican brush was left low and dry on the U. S. side of the river when the Rio Grande changed course after a flood in 1864. In 1894 a Mexican who owned part of the strip claimed it was Mexican territory and for years boundary commissions argued Mexican claims, U. S. counterclaims. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator ruled that the international boundary followed the course of the river as it was in 1864, but where that might have been, no one knew for sure. So Chamizal has stayed...
...brush patch today, Chamizal still finds it hard to live up to the valuation of $50,000,000 arbitrators set on it 34 years ago. In it stand the new $165,000 Bowie High School and a new U. S. Customs House, but more prominently a red-light district, a small stockyard and any number of ratty firetrap tenements. To Deputy Pérez' oratory, the reaction of city-proud El Pasoans was: "Wish to hell they would give it to Mexico...
...usually a big day when the "guv'-ment buyers" come by. They are officers from the Remount depots and area stations. Remount's buyers travel some 50,000 miles a year over highways and byways, up the creek forks, in fields, pastures, cactus and brush. Sellers know these men want a sturdy, clean-footed, straight-legged horse that "travels right" (straight, no pacers), has good bone, short backs for Army saddles, that they prefer a horse that is ½ to ⅞ thoroughbred, that 75% of the horses they buy are from the Remount's own studs...
...officer in public places or with bundles in your arms), the care and maintenance of small arms, scouting and patrolling, map reading, many another basic military subject, are you-and-me subjects to the Soldier's Handbook. It all winds up with care of the soldier himself (brush teeth twice a day, see the doctor if you feel ill) and a glossary of common military expressions, some hangovers from World...
Sportswriters chuckled at this brush-up between Millionaires Briggs & Bradley, but rival club owners were fit to be tied. "It certainly reeked of poor taste, particularly at this time of year," hissed one vexed bigwig. "Ballplayers find out soon enough what others are getting and use such figures as argument for more dough...