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Texans tried to keep the flood from dampening their seasonal spirits. More than 1,000 people in Dallas had Christmas dinner at Red Cross mobile kitchens, where they received special holiday gifts: scrub brushes, buckets and mops. In the Colorado River community of Wharton, more than a dozen flood victims spent the holiday in a school gym. "This is a Christmas I'll remember, all right," remarked Evelyn Shanklin, 89. "I didn't have to cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Water, Water Everywhere | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...inches from the mine floor to the roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When the day is done, coal dust covers his face and permeates his overalls. Ruby takes a scrub brush to the washer, the dryer and the bathtub, trying to remove the sooty coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...Ransom, at 40-some, is getting too old for this. He bosses a gang that poisons tracts of scrub forest with herbicide, so that the land can be planted with fast-growing pine. That's days. Nights, he drinks, bar fights, gambles, cats around, aggravates the local cops. In between he cruises the Mississippi back roads in an old pickup, drinking beer from a big cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Pine | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...hoped these schools would get out in front and scrub thse accounts before the government got there," the investigator said...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: ...While Leaner Times Set in on the University | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...hoped these schools would get out in front and scrub thse accounts before the government got there," the investigator said...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: The Square: Hardly Hard Hit by the Recession... ...While Leaner Times Set in on the University | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

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