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Word: scrubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloth once animate but no more, and turning to contemplate the mystery of a consciousness come and gone I to realize, thinking to my self: holy shit, I'm driving, and turning to the wheel a panic of road-leaving, a blurry desert scene suspension-crunching horror flash of scrub and a pedestrian, pale moon-faced shock, tears by, but I throw on the breaks and our tortured trusty boat screeches dustwise front-to-back to a halt...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...done a good job beating the scrub teams," Cassell said. "Now we've got to take the next step and beat the teams that take a little more effort. At some time, we're going to start beating Yale, Penn, and Princeton. I hope we start with some of those wins while I'm here...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: A New Attitude, New Success | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Just after midnight on a hot, moonlit summer Tuesday, a National Park Service crew assembled, scrub brushes in hand. Its mission: to clean a year's worth of grime off the distinctive features of the 16th U.S. President. Once a year the 19-ft.-high statue of Abraham Lincoln at the heart of the Grecian-style memorial in Washington gets a thorough rubdown with special soap and natural- bristle brushes. Though Mr. Lincoln's baths are infrequent, their cost and duration are impressive. The twelve-hour cleaning set taxpayers back some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memorials: Old Abe Gets The Brush | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...eager developers, Big Bend conjured up visions of condos and tennis courts: 64,000 acres of wetlands stretching along 60 miles of the Gulf Coast of Florida. Hardwood hammocks, saw grass, palms, brackish scrub. Teeming with many exotic -- as well as threatened and endangered -- species such as alligators, manatees, green turtles and bald eagles. Probably the largest plot of undeveloped private property left in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Conservation's Best-Kept Secret | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...train home on Wednesday. But pay in hand and spirits high, he went out for a final fling with a friend and wound up missing his connection. The next day, nursing a hangover, he hitched an automobile ride with a black driver. For 300 miles, he rode through the scrub veld of the western Transvaal, past parched cornfields and through conservative Afrikaner towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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