Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, and her metabolism had slowed down drastically. With her breathing volume reduced proportionately, she had lost little water in the form of vapor from her lungs. She had been incredibly fortunate in falling beneath the shade of both the body of the car and heavy oak scrub, and thundershowers conserved her body's water supply by cooling it and checking perspiration...
...Tulane University, and ground his way through Tulane's Medical School in four years. "I didn't know whether I was going to be able to make the grade," said Dr. Mellon when at last it was over. Gwen Mellon learned to be a laboratory technician and "scrub" nurse (in charge of instruments in an operating room...
Rocky Reform. With the end of their oldest plague, all new things have become possible for the proud, primitive islanders. Italy's ambitious, $2 billion Cassa del Mezzogiorno (Fund for the South) is now transforming the rocky, scrub-covered face of Sardinia. Already the fund's associated agencies have taken over a third of the island's arable land from large holders and passed it out to peasants in 15-acre plots. By draining the old malarial swamps, the agencies are making another 185,000 acres of cropland for small holders. But the most ambitious project...
...headed straight for hell; on every possible occasion, she was made to say her prayers, and on every Sunday morning, noon and night, and sometimes once or twice in the middle of the week, the little girl was marched away to church. At home she had to scrub the floors before she was five years old, and do the family dishes...
...hated the orphanage. As one of the older children, Norma Jeane was assigned to wash the dishes: 100 plates, 100 cups, 100 knives, forks, spoons. "I did it three times a day, seven days a week," says Marilyn. "But it wasn't so bad. It was worse to scrub out the toilets." As payment for their work, most of the children got 5? a month. Since everybody had to put a penny in the plate on Sunday, that left each child with 1? a month to spend. With her penny, Norma Jeane usually bought a ribbon for her hair...