Word: scrubbings
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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...
...going great guns this week in southern Australia. Every fortnight, the Australian Mutual Provident (life insurance) Society plans to turn out a new, 1,000-acre farm. The land it uses is part of the "Ninety-Mile Desert" southeast of Adelaide, covered until recently only with sparse, unhealthy scrub...
...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...