Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Approaching Yuma at midmorning, the freight slows to a crawl to accommodate track workers laying ties. Fearful the workers will throw rocks, a constant terror, the riders hide and jump off in a remote rail yard. Campground "jungles" located in trackside patches of scrub and a riverside park for relaxing and washing clothes are nearby. A notable addition to the hobo community this weekend is Tudor Williams, 44, former chef to Movie Director Steven Spielberg. A tramp's poem recommends making mulligan stew by putting "Whatever you've got/ In the pot/ Heat...
After a restless night in a patch of salt cedar scrub near the westbound line, home and family beckon. The three grimy hobo-hobbyists trek to the old Yuma prison for some middle-class sightseeing. Well-groomed tourists stare uncomfortably. Afterward, westbound freights are said to brake for a curve and easy boarding just past the Colorado River. Eight hours later, when the tourists are having dinner, the hobo-hobbyists are still waiting for a slow freight...
Roman Popadiuk said the decision to scrub one of Reagan's five face-to-face meetings with Gorbachev was "mutual." However, chief spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had said earlier that U.S. officials were seeking an explanation...
...Laurel and Juan Trevino, the two senior agents commanding the operation, scan the road ahead through binoculars. "Got them," says Trevino. "Looks like they are heading back into the scrub." Laurel quickly checks the position of another Border Patrol unit, which has been maneuvering to cut the gang off from the river. "We need to bust them now," Laurel radios. "We're coming in fast...
...details of setting up the American operation to Fujimori, who last November began advertising the $2,400, 13-day course in the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. As a site for the training program, Fujimori chose the remote Calamigos Ranch conference center in California's scrub-covered Latigo Canyon near Malibu. Among the ten students who took the first class in mid-February were several self-employed salespeople, two advertising staffers from the U.S.-Japan Business News weekly newspaper, a sales representative for Singapore Airlines, and Patenaude, a therapist who specializes in massage. The group also included...