Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunny Side Up. In Hackensack, N.J., Mrs. Harriett Paula Bisagni got a divorce after testifying that her husband forced her to eat her breakfast on the kitchen floor which he made her scrub with a fingernail brush...
That Sunday morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown...
...country the biggest rocket that has actually been flown. It is a great, sharp-nosed metal cylinder. In accordance with Army doctrine, it is tough, can stand quick transportation and quick firing from enemy-influenced territory. Tested many times from the monstrous steel tower that sticks up above the scrub palmetto of Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Redstone is a vast improvement over its ancestral V2, both in range, guidance and warhead. The Army is confident that after moderate changes it will reach to 1,500 miles. The Redstone is the reason why the Army has been given a crack...
...overzealous subordinates, provoked a sitdown strike among the Marauders. As a mobile, one-shot force, they had succeeded brilliantly in harassing action, losing only 424 men in combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
Long-Ranged Patrick. Some modern missiles are too long-ranged for Holloman, big and remote as it is. To test these fearsome "birds," most of which are highly secret, the Air Force maintains Patrick Air Force Base on the east coast of central Florida. From Cape Canaveral, a scrub-covered island a few miles offshore, a long, highly instrumented range slants southeast across the Bahamas, skirts the Dominican Republic and crosses a corner of Puerto Rico. This distance, more than 1,000 miles, is enough for the present, but the range is being extended to Ascension Island between Brazil...