Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vast expanse of rolling scrub and farmland is still and dark. Dawn, when it comes, tinges the land red before a hot, white sun climbs in the sky, turning the dew to vapor that rises from the surface of the plain. This heartland, thousands of square miles, is central Texas. Bonnie and Clyde rampaged through the territory. Sam Bass, the outlaw, was gunned down in Round Rock, not far from the Santa Fe railroad. Today, Interstate 35 passes small and medium-size towns, ranches and farms. Huge trucks rumble into dusty, chalk-white depots to load crushed rock from local...
...would live and work for the rest of his life arm in a state of almost complete Isolation: connected to the city across the Hay only by the glow its lights made over the treetops on starle nights and the passage of suburban board-riders past his pertly of scrub, and In the disruptive decade or had broken into by the piles of newspaper recollected each fortnight from the local store, on the paddled thick house paint...
...Yeah," says Pasadena, "I'm married to one of those kind of guys." Pause. "Did you say $100? That seems sort of high." Both women scrub hands blackened from pushing hundreds of coins into slot machines, and then each takes one thin quarter from the paper cup holding her slot-machine supplies and deposits it on the tip plate. An attendant, sweeping together the wreckage of paper products they have left behind, says, "Women don't tip like men. Sometimes I don't take home more than $6 in tips...
...singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain in the garage. They sent him off to the trials with a Father's Day card that opened up and played the theme from Rocky. With a toss of 235 ft. 7 in., Burke finished third to Bill Green...
...number two university for endowment, Texas, is in the unique position of being able to capitalize hugely on the next energy crisis as it did in 1979 and 1973. About 75 years ago the university received 2 million acres of scrub land in 19 west Texas counties--which no one expected to one day become America's version of Kuwait...