Word: scrubbings
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...Some months found us without enough money for the $30 rent, but we didn't lose any money--we didn't have any to lose," says Mrs. Mary Mohere, manager of the gift store. "We had to depend on generous friends to wash the windows and scrub the floors...
...done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when the coons and possums and mean grey foxes began to move through the scrub oak and cedars, Ella added a postscript: "Popa pass tonight. Will funeali him Friday...
...below the coasting buzzard, in the grey-green jungles of northern Nicaragua, more was stirring than his great bird's-eye view could catch. Snaking through the scrub, guerrilla riflemen made short, sharp little raids against government outposts. In & out of the piny mountain country on Nicaragua's northern flank, armed, machete-toting men filtered mysteriously. In Guatemala and Costa Rica dusty little companies, in faded denim and khaki, marked time in the tropic heat...
...wasn't because of anything heroic he did (Oklahoma was already well on its way to a 42-0 victory); it was just that Bronko McGugan, a junior in geology, too small for the big time, and unfavored by football "scholarships," typified the unsung, inglorious, eternal scrub. In Oklahoma City last week, the Quarterback Club felt the least they could do was buy Fifth-Stringer McGugan a shiny new helmet-and collected $73.25, enough to buy him four...
Last spring a five-man team of doctors at the British Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, about 200 miles from Singapore, began treating victims of scrub typhus with the new antibiotic* called chloromycetin (TIME, Nov. 10). Chloromycetin reduced the fever in one day. But in two cases the fever did not go down until the third day. The doctors checked again, found that the two third-day patients actually had typhoid fever. They picked eight cases of known typhoid fever, again reduced the fever in three days. Three cases of typhoid in Baltimore hospitals later responded the same...