Word: scour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine age yesterday, as 17 maids left their posts for the last time. A skeleton crew of two remains to clean House offices, common rooms and the libraries, but students will face the student porters next Monday. The eightman crew, armed with compressor tanks and detergent, will scour bathrooms, bedrooms, and studies weekly...
...efforts to scour away some of this blackness, Jessie used to gather mountaineer women into meetings. She would suddenly stand up and snap, "I smell sin," then launch into a sermon reeking with brimstone. One of Gatineau's few doctors recalls: "These ignorant women didn't know how Jessie had found them out, and were terrified when she started telling them the agonies of hellfire. Next day my office would be full of hysterical women about to have a breakdown...
...already sent destroyers to scour the seas off Guatemala, shadowing and photographing ships and challenging them for identification. Only vessel so far stopped (by a comic misunderstanding) was the United Fruit Co.'s banana-freighter Choluteca...
...Acids and bleaches, which "scour the inside of little stomachs just as ruthlessly as they clean mother's pots and pans...
...helpless pupal stage, the flies will be irradiated with cobalt. When they emerge as adults, they will be liberated in heavily infested districts. The females among them will do m damage to the cattle: they can lay no normal eggs. The males, sterile but still ambitious, will scour the country for fertile wild mates. But the females that they win will never lay fertile eggs. Bushland believes that "extensive use of this method will have a profoundly depressing effect on the screwworm fly population...