Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear tell you want a girl," she said fiercely. "You take me." Author Rawlings explained that the girl was too old to learn her ways. Said 'Geechee: "If I don't do to suit you, you can cut my throat." At dawn 'Geechee began to scrub down the house-walls, floors and ceilings. She used up six cans of potash. She wore a hole in the kitchen floor pursuing a stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential. She explained her blind...
...escarpment is empty. It is a plateau covered with scattered scrub and occasional boulders, and here & there it is cut by dry streambeds called wadies. The sun has just come up, and each stone and bush throws a long shadow...
...several days unprecedented numbers of trucks had been moving up by night, many of them new. Complete regimental units had streamed up in far greater force than usual. By day, vehicles were kept unusually well camouflaged with netting and desert scrub; by night their lights were more scrupulously dimmed than usual; at all times they were more carefully and widely spaced in convoys. Roads had been given new shoulders, officers new maps, airfields new fuel caches...
...test was a problem in logistics (troop movement), worked out by Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
...afternoon in Manhattan a man sits at a microphone watching a clock. As minute and second hand cut the hour he speaks. The vibration which is the "sound" of his voice becomes an electrical vibration. It speeds along a wire to a building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time...