Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the scrub eucalyptus trees in a trim little Australian-American military cemetery outside Port Moresby, the New York Times's Byron Darnton was buried last week with full military honors. The Army said only that he was killed in an accident. He was 44 years old and the tenth U.S. correspondent to fall in line of duty in World...
Still feeling that contact work during the week is a good preparation for Saturday battles, Harlow put the Varsity through an hour-long scrimmage yesterday. First the top two elevens were on the offensive against a scrub aggregation, and then the "A" and "B" teams came to grips...
...Varsity scrimmaged against an amalgam of Jayvees and Freshmen, in which Paul Perkins ripped off a number of long gains on line plunges, and Bart Harvey was particularly outstanding at wingback. Brought up from the D squad in the middle of the session, the baseball captain swept the scrub ends several times, twice running the route...
Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. "Good morning, Queen," said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved...
...only 34, a little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing...