Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian graffiare, to scratch), if only because this highly perishable form of folk expression has seldom been taken seriously. It is at least as venerable as the human ambition to defy convention and authority-and both convention and authority, down the ages, have diligently worked overtime trying to scrub the walls clean. They can never, of course, successfully purge the record of these irreverent footnotes, which proliferate in both written and pictorial forms. When archaeologists unearthed Pompeii beginning in the 18th century, they found scores of graffiti that, after some two millenniums, have not lost their topicality: "Here I enjoyed...
...when they were speaking again, Merilee and Sam agreed that it was civilization and cosas which had nearly done them in. Merilee's new thirty-five dollar stove didn't work and the dented refrigerator iced her vegetables. They decided to go to the mountains overnight to drop and scrub the common soul, and took the habachi and the keeds and Stefan with them. They were silent on the way up, both appalled at how close to the edge they had carelessly careened...
Ground rules vary. A guest may talk on the record or he may use various camouflage devices like "an Administration" or "White House" source. "Basically, they're all on the make one way or another," says Lisagor. "The White House guys come over to scrub Nixon's image and get rid of any warts that seem to be developing. And we try to use them. But it's a little cozier than the usual kind of group." Adds Sperling: "The great advantage is that we can follow up questions and keep boring in. At White House...
Mainly through Kerr's Washington influence, the eastern part of the state has been transformed from dusty scrub land into an aquatic paradise. Its 679 square miles of water make its ratio of water to land higher than Minnesota's. The Oologah, Pensacola and Eufaula reservoirs are immense. Keystone, Heyburn, Thunderbird, Hulah-the lakes multiply as fast as Senate bills. Atoka, Fort Gibson, Markham Ferry, Tenkiller Ferry, Wister; the new recreational waters created by dams abound with boats, water-skiers and fishermen. They also mean more tourists and more money...