Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans when their general decided not to defend the west beaches. Perhaps the Jap commander was so certain that we would land on the east or south that he put all his eggs in eastern or southern baskets. His pillboxes on the western beaches were jerry-built of scrub-pine logs, lightly covered with sand and coral. Only a few bursts were fired from his guns and mortars at the landing amphtracks, and none caused a casualty...
...nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for "dangerous bug fever"). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical...
...dreary, flat battleground, covered with scrub, relieved by occasional stands of trees around farm buildings, was raked by fire from end to end. Shattered trees, shattered buildings and the shattered corpses of Germans lay before the Canadians. At one time, part of the bridgehead across the 100-foot canal was only ten yards deep. Gradually, units from western Canada pushed forward, wet and bedraggled, until they had carved out an area more than five miles by three...
While the Crimson Varsity was losing to the coast Guard, the B-team was belting out a 7 to 4 win over a team from constitution wharf on the scrub diamond...
Lowell House, however, has not been idle when their opposition has declined to appear, as they have managed to play two pick-up games. On Friday they beat Company E in a scrub game and yesterday they were utterly and irretrievably shellacked by an all-star aggregation culled from Companies A, B, and C, by the score...