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Word: scrubbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...whole world needs a big wash, a big scrub-down." Granted-and why don't we start with the loonies who wallowed for days in Bethel's "beautiful" mud, litter and garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 19, 1969 | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...gonna lead a new social order without a leader. They're gonna reject materialism, no matter how much they have to sponge off the parents. They're showing a new morality, no matter how immoral they have to be to prove it. They're going to scrub the world down, no matter how bathless they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...only way for kids to make the older generation understand is through mass gatherings like Bethel. And the kids are not going to be in the mud all the time. From here they will start to build and change things. The whole world needs a big wash, a big scrub-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woodstock - The Message of History's Biggest Happening | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...Scrub the Water. What can be done? The Federal Government has outlined a $1.1 billion program for upgrading the sewage treatment plants of Lake

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Cities: The Price of Optimism | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...year. Much of the credit goes to Ben Stefanski, a 30-year-old lawyer-turned-urbanist, whom Mayor Stokes had just appointed to be Cleveland's director of public utilities. Making up in enthusiasm what he lacked in experience, Stefanski persuaded Stokes to start a massive effort to scrub the Cuyahoga, and hence aid Lake Erie. The proposed price tag: $100 million in bonds, to improve existing facilities and build 25 miles of trunk-line sewers plus a modern sewage treatment plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Cities: The Price of Optimism | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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