Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that...
...Semitic demonstrations over, prankish Storm Troopers rounded up hundreds of Jews in Vienna's parks, marshaled them into parade formation, roared with laughter when they forced them to perform a burlesque of the goose step through the city's amusement centre. The troopers made Jewish cafe patrons scrub floors and wash windows, and escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that by 1942 no Jew would have...
Delousing stations (where soldiers bathed and their clothes were boiled) were part of the standard military equipment of the World War. Every member of the American Expeditionary Force, before he was permitted to reembark for the U. S., was obliged to strip, scrub and dress in lice-free clothes. Only by such drastic means could Army doctors be sure of preventing the transmission to the U. S. of the louse-carried disease of typhus. And once typhus appears among dirty human beings huddled together in unclean army camps, trenches, jails, poorhouses, hospitals or ships, they die by thousands. Typhus, more...
With its excellent descriptions of Florida scrub landscapes, its skillful use of native vernacular, its tender relation between Jody and his pet fawn, The Yearling is a simply written, picturesque story of boyhood that stands a good chance, when adults have finished with it, of finding a permanent place in adolescent libraries...
...Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept out of the corn patch...