Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical Service Graduate School has recently had a team in Madagascar studying plague, while another worked on scrub typhus in North Borneo. Now the big push on scrub typhus is in Japan (where it becomes tsutsugamushi disease): medics from Walter Reed are at Zama studying the chiggers that transmit the disease, while Japanese artists draw them...
...when nobody could catch any fish, Calpurnia turned hard times into soft times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests and 'gator-filled streams of northern Florida's wild St. Johns River country that the novelist described almost two decades ago in The Yearling. A charmingly illustrated idyl, with just the right mixture of fish story and black-water magic, The Secret River is well worth exploring...
Until the last few decades, "restorers" hid more pictures, under new and falsely prettifying layers of paint and varnish, than they cleaned. Modern practitioners take the bolder course of removing past additions in order to restore pictures to something approximating their original state. Sometimes they scrub with too much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness...
Operating rooms are in pairs around a central group of instrument and scrub rooms so that a busy surgeon need lose not a minute between operations, and in certain cases can let them overlap. The old theater design is gone. Medical students no longer need to peer over each other's shoulders, straining for a view of a master-surgeon's deft-fingered skill. A TV camera relays a color image to viewing rooms throughout the hospital. A two-way phone system enables the surgeon to explain what he is doing, while graduate students...
...begun to look with less favor on his sacred cattle. The "dedicated bulls," which from time immemorial have been set free to roam the country as walking memorials to dead Hindus, are no longer of carefully selected, high-breed (Brahman) stock as they once were, but more often cheap, scrub calfs with little breeding and less manners. Their cows are mostly skilled and shifty thieves who are set free by their owners each day to filch and pillage in other men's gardens, garbage cans and vegetable stalls before returning home at night to be milked...