Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked why he was "so bad on The Tonight Show," Wednesday night, Chase replied, "Don't pick at them or squeeze them. Use a steel brush," before conceding that he had been...
Magdalenski is the kind of player most in his element foraging in the woods where he can swing through brambles and brush with sickening violence. Dales said ruefully after the match, "he just scraped it out of the woods for fours every hole...
...ringed chromosome (which is the repository of most of their genes), they possess much smaller closed loops of DNA, called plasmids-which consist of only a few genes. This extra bit of DNA-genetic small change, as it has been dubbed-serves a highly useful purpose. When two bacteria brush against each other, they sometimes form a connecting bridge. During such a "conjugation," a plasmid from one bacterium may be passed into the other...
Bailey said the judicial system was a game of "Russian Roulette" citing his own brush with the law in a court case in Florida "as a harrowing experience...
...first of the old alphabet agencies set up to create jobs in the 1930s was F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which in nine years sent 2.5 million young men to the nation's forests and parklands to cut trails, build fire towers, chop brush and plant nearly 2 billion trees. Last week President Carter proposed in effect to resurrect the CCC as part of a $1.8 billion program to put youths to work...