Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week reporters' efforts to spot trends in the races for governor, Senator and President produced little results in New Mexico. One New Mexico politician had this advice: "You'll just have to wait until November. By then the scrub oak will be red, and so will the faces of a lot of political experts...
...Siberia. Then, early last week, the Marines occupied "Bunker Hill," which is higher than Siberia and close to it. Since the U.S. position on Bunker made the Chinese position on Siberia unhealthy, the enemy spent the next five days and nights trying to push the leathernecks off the sandy, scrub-pine slopes of Bunker...
...either side of the Danube, in the Altenburg district of Lower Austria, there is a stretch of dense willow forests, impenetrable scrub, reed-grown marshes and drowsy backwaters. Red and roe deer, herons and cormorants hunt there. Muskrats come down from Bohemia, and heavy-bodied stags recall the days when Francis Joseph I imported wapiti from America for the royal hunt...
...Army was having servant trouble. High Commissioner John J. McCloy and the State Department have long wanted the Army to give up the 24,000 German servants who cook and scrub for the families of officers and noncoms in the occupation forces-with their wages paid by Germany. The Army would not hear of it. U.S. officers' and men's wives might have to do menial work, and that would have an "unfortunate effect on prestige and morale." Moreover, explained the Army solemnly, wives in outlying areas often have to travel 50 miles to buy groceries...
...going great guns this week in southern Australia. Every fortnight, the Australian Mutual Provident (life insurance) Society plans to turn out a new, 1,000-acre farm. The land it uses is part of the "Ninety-Mile Desert" southeast of Adelaide, covered until recently only with sparse, unhealthy scrub...