Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defend the bill against indiscriminate cutting. "I am certain," he said, "that so long as this nation remains prepared . . . war is not imminent. Let down our guard and the lightning will strike." But the House was not in the mood for sober counsels. At the first touch of the scrub brush it began flailing back. It refused to restore any part of the Committee cuts. Then it sliced out half a billion more, leaving a final figure of $46.2 billion...
...semi-scrub teams looked better than some of the college aggregations that have performed at the Arena this year," Will Cloney, local sports columnist, said this morning in reference to Wednesday night's All-Star House hockey game. Cloney has seen all the Arena games...
...Nellie Forbush in South Pacific when Mary Martin left the show, but turned it down because she would have had to sing it for a year. She also turned down a lead in Broadway's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, "because I didn't want to scrub floors for a year." * Nonmusicians define a coloratura voice as one that plays musical chairs among all the right notes without ever sitting down. * Marion Talley was five months younger when she made her debut as Gilda...
...reason for this porter lack is the fact that, in another innovation this year, 80 or so students are doing part of the "dirty work" in the University's kitchens. As opposed to those who work in the serving lines, these men wash dishes, clean up, and scrub pots. They are paid 86 cents an hour and get the meals they work on deducted from their board bills...
History & Football. Even as a freshman scrub, writes Jackson, "I was engaged in actual practice on the field for about 20 hours a week during the spring semester, and during the fall my working week was boosted to 28 hours. Of course, this . . . does not include such things as evening movies of the next week's opponent, study time wasted because of fatigue, extra time demanded by game trips to other schools, and time spent in whirlpools and under heat lamps in the training room . . ." After four years, Jackson figured out that he had spent about 810 hours...