Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Alben Barldey of Kentucky clutched convulsively at his pride and howled in pain when he learned that Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
...Army dentist joined the unit. He was no help on most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled...
Crossville simmers quietly in the scrub oak of the Cumberland Plateau, nine bumpy miles from the neat little county seat whose name it shares. In a rough rectangle, 2,400 ft. by 1,100 ft., stretches the barbed-wire stockade, two 12-ft. fences of 21 strands...
...along the front from Leningrad south into the Kuban, Russian fighter planes roared up to give the Luftwaffe battle. Near Leningrad Russian fighters sent 25 Nazi bombers crashing into the scrub birches and soft brown earth...
...which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...