Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unique contest was a University battle--a basketball war between an administrative squad known as Bok's Jocks, and the Harvard women's basketball team. When the dust had settled, the taller, stronger, board-dominating faculty quintet, led by the 16-point performance of a former Stanford varsity hoop scrub turned Harvard president, sent the not-yet-sober women to their aspirin bottles with a 68-41 headache...
Security for the trip was tight. Concerned by a recent discovery of arms caches in the area, motorcycle policemen scoured the scrub on either side of the route, while Air Force and police helicopters patrolled overhead. Officials held their breaths as the spacecraft and its transporter-47.6 meters (153 ft.) long and 23.8 meters (78 ft.) wide -moved along East 10th Street through Palmdale and adjoining Lancaster. At one point, Rockwell workers had to rush forward with a chain saw to lop off a traffic sign in order to permit the shuttle to slip through. But even with such precautions...
Stewart was admitted by a man who introduced himself as John Holmes (see box on aides). Holmes gave Stewart detailed instructions. He was to scrub up, doctor-style, in the bathroom before beginning the haircutting. Then he was to put on a pair of surgical gloves. He was to have no foreign objects, such as pencils or pens, on his person. And finally, he was not to speak to the man whose hair he had been summoned...
Tall, thin Thomas Fitzgerald, 19, a junior at Queens College, stood in the crisp night air on Indian Island, a 50-acre patch of scrub just 50 feet off Long Island's South Shore. From his neck, in front of his chest, hung a strip of 2-by-4 wood, 20 inches long. On it was scrawled "P.O.W." Fitzgerald, a member of the St. John's University Reserve Officers Training Corps program (Queens College has no ROTC unit) was trying to get into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were...
Umbrella companies are folding, Hyde Park looks like a sandlot, and at the London zoo, bath water for the elephants is being reused to water plants. Hundreds of grass and scrub fires are erupting in the parched countryside as Britain, which has had exactly one-tenth of an inch of rain this month, suffers through the worst drought since meteorological records were started in 1727. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan summoned vacationing Cabinet members back to No. 10 Downing Street for an emergency meeting and asked Sports Minister Denis Howell to assume responsibility for conserving what remains...