Word: scrubdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scrubdown. Since radium is under state control, Johnny Pierce's confession let the federal officials out of the case. But they had already been around with their Geiger counters, detected radioactivity at the motel and the drugstore that Johnny had visited, ordered a thorough scrubdown. State officials carried on, traced everybody with whom Johnny had so much as shaken hands that morning, got them started on the scrubbing routine. By week's end everybody except Johnny was in the clear...
...scrubdown in the tissue bank's underground operating room was even more thorough than is needed for live surgery, for contamination of tissue can make the bank's operations worse than useless. At 2:05 p.m., Dr. Hyatt, two assistant surgeons, a nurse and five specially trained medical corpsmen began excision of parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic...
...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 of the already bleach-cleaned barracks, then decided to interrupt it with the night march-a form of stern discipline that had helped make a Marine out of many another boot...