Scrubby, sprawling farms support sheep, ostrich, springbok and little else.
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Other students and teachers ran into the scrubby desert countryside.
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Barges, warehouses and scrubby, empty patches of riverbank are constant motifs.
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Because, exfoliating as the scrubby sponge may be, it's far from sterile.
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A wildfire crests a low, scrubby mountain in Viotia, in central Greece.
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This part of Texas is flat grassland dotted with scrubby mesquite trees.
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From above, the batteries would have been camouflaged by dunes and scrubby vegetation.
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" She added, "Kind of a scrubby 'just woke up' or 'just worked out' look.
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Falla was talking about yaupon, a scrubby, rugged evergreen with waxy leaves, like holly.
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Just a short walk from Dubai's Deira Fish Market is a vacant, scrubby sandlot.
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The expanse of the termites' construction were hidden by scrubby forest known as caatinga.
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It also has itty-bitty scrubby fragments that give me another round of light exfoliation.
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The beans' scrubby texture does a better job than a soft sponge could ever do.
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In its place, a scrubby forest of short oaks and white pines has come up.
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Even a small patch of rust can be fixed with a scrubby brush and some oil.
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Suddenly, on the scrubby desert horizon, men on motorbikes appeared — a sign of likely terrorist activity.
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Dropping their backpacks on the scrubby grass, they get right to it, enacting the Scottish tragedy.
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In a matter of hours, a scrubby patch of grassy prairie became a city of 10,000.
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The scene below looked like Afghanistan, with its beige terrain, onslaught of dust and scrubby gray vegetation.
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It had to irk a fighter pilot to be trailing a scrubby little plane like my Cessna.
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The park's layout consists of an open-space terrain covered with scrubby, undulating grass and botanical species.
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Senegal has few rivers and no mountains so baobabs sprout from the scrubby landscape as majestic way points.
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As we approached, they emerged like ancient pyramids from the scrubby desert, wobbling in the waves of heat.
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The geese flew no more than 200 feet and settled happily on the scrubby winter grass behind us.
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It's also infused with natural walnut shells to give it that scrubby texture and coconut extract for extra hydration.
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Sometimes they retrieve bodies from the scrubby saltbush brush, where out-of-luck miners retreat to end their lives.
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I change into scrubby clothes, move everything out of the entryway room, and line the floor with a drop cloth.
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The three counties that will be converted into Xiongan are mainly made up of scrubby fields and drab towns (pictured).
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It was a scrubby area off West 165th Street between Riverside Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway in Washington Heights.
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Amid palm trees and scrubby patches of vegetation, rusting cars stood among the bivouacs made by stringing blankets from rope.
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There was a field where weeds and wildflowers and scrubby trees grew, and then the parking lot of the store.
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"I just started running," he told BuzzFeed News in Dapchi in early April, gesturing at the scrubby desert surrounding the town.
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The scrubby East Village apartments and Soho lofts that formerly housed artists and no-wave bands now rent to boutique chains.
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I'd rented an RV in a several-acre patch of scrubby nothing just outside of Joshua Tree National Park in California.
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When he arrived nearly a decade ago in Wee Waa, a small town surrounded by scrubby farmland, Mr. Gabbott's mission seemed straightforward.
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Housing for workers at the sites, in the middle of an empty, scrubby landscape dotted by baobabs, has yet to be completed.
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The texture felt less granulated than sand, and to be frank, I've used other physical exfoliators that feel more "scrubby" than this one.
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Glycolic acid whisks away dead cells sitting on the surface, without me so much as looking at a face mask or scrubby cleanser.
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The lower elevations look like what most people assume all of Texas looks like: scrubby flatlands light on trees, thick with prickly things.
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I made peace with this mess years ago, and bring my own scrubby sponge and quietly clean the guest bathroom after I arrive.
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Their tactical objectives — involving dominion over rocks and scrubby trees — are nearly as murky as their larger strategic purpose, which they rarely talk about.
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The ground-hugging, scrubby bushes have the darkest, smallest, most concentrated fruit, while the high-bush varieties will fill your hat or basket faster.
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Tweets are stapled to walls, pinned to the floor with rocks and tossed on the scrubby grounds outside, beside soda cups and dirty diapers.
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Getting vaccines to the centre of this outbreak, the scrubby village of Mangina in the North Kivu province of Eastern Congo, is no easy task.
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And for several millennia, they managed to hang on, drinking from a handful of freshwater lakes and chowing down on the island's scrubby tundra vegetation.
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Islamist fighters operate in the low scrubby mountains that rise behind the town and occasionally they ambush police officers or lure youths to join them.
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Power lines supported by two wooden poles rise above a scrubby terrain in the United States; lattices of metal parade over the hills of Australia.
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But make it past the end of the Riis promenade, 10 minutes from the bazaar, and you'll find a serene, scrubby beach minding its business.
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As we circled overhead, Mr. Labuschagne pointed to still more elephants streaming through the scrubby forest to join their families and friends at the water.
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It's in the wind that blasts across the scrubby Sardinian landscape, demanding purpose from characters who seem always in danger of being buffeted off course.
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The rugged border areas held by the Houthis – steep mountains scattered with boulders and pitted by gullies and deep, scrubby valleys – are ideal for guerrilla warfare.
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The air grew thick with dust and cordite as Leopard 2000 tanks raced across the scrubby landscape, with howitzer fire providing cover and helicopters circling overhead.
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JOSEPH KINKONDA, one of the most famous artists in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lives in a dank bedroom in Ndjili, a scrubby neighbourhood of Kinshasa.
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The doctor lives and works in Lampedusa, a small, scrubby Italian island which is 120 miles from Sicily but only 70 miles from the African coast.
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On the stifling May morning that I visited, the scrubby forest was dry and radioactively bright, baked under a sky the color of a pilot flame.
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You'll ride your horse across the openness of a Great Plains stand-in while a setting sun sends rays of light bouncing across the scrubby desert landscape.
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Every morning, I walked up the hill from my house to a scrubby field slated for development, where a rope swing hung from a black-walnut tree.
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It was a town called Orania, which sits on the edge of the Great Karoo, the vast stretch of scrubby quasi-desert that dominates the South African interior.
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"Today, there are these really scrubby and rolling hills that are cut through by dry river beds," said Johnson, an assistant professor at Iowa State University in Ames.
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Warplanes buzzed overhead, as they have for more than a month, dropping ordnance on this scrubby province in north-western Syria, the last significant pocket of rebel-held territory.
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For the party, they'd set up turntables and a screen on the roof of the slaughterhouse, which sits below the level of the road on a scrubby waterside bluff.
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Although the plantings by it are now scrubby, eventually the flowering shrubs and trees will grow around "Cabin," obscuring it further, making it even more of a serendipitous encounter.
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The most self-conscious beauty shot is dropped in a nighttime chase that takes Bell and her prey through scrubby greenery that's framed by the jewel-like downtown skyline.
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A "first-class international city", as the planners put it, will rise from land that is home today to scrubby fields, a large lake and a series of drab towns.
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Low scrubby hills with red cattle on them, stretching to tall woods and the creek that ran through Bunyah, a hamlet with no main road in northern New South Wales.
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Though the Sephora Collection Precision Pore Cleansing Pad is manual, it still cleans well thanks to two types of scrubby silicone brushes, a flexible design, and an ergonomic knob handle.
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The landscape is monotonous — a flat and almost ghostly expanse of scrubby desert whose most impressive feature is the tenacity of the flora, fauna and human beings who survive there.
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The scrubby foothills of these peaks produce some of the more distinctive wines of the region, like this one, made mostly of syrah, with grenache and a bit of mourvèdre.
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Malhotra's photographs illuminate the darkness, shedding light on the overlooked, crumbling, and scrubby parts of cities, documenting this separate sphere in which the norms of sunlit hours don't seem to apply.
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Since a 1992 geological survey spotted one of the world's largest coal reserves in Thar, a scrubby desert in the southern province of Sindh, prospectors have hardly dug up a lump.
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Black skeletons of scrubby trees stretched to the horizon south of Seiling; in other places, the flames had turned open prairie into Sahara-like dunes dotted with spiky black sagebrush stumps.
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Ms. Beck and her husband, who owned the land that La Pitchoune is built on, lived in the big farmhouse that still stands a few meters up the sunny, scrubby hillside.
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The tent occupied one corner of a cavernous "clean room" in a remote building on the scrubby outskirts of the space center here, amid palms and canals and flocks of cormorants.
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The trouble began around midday after they left the fortress, following a set of railway tracks to a scrubby field where they encountered a group of local boys and young men.
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But the scrubby dune landscape with beach grass and plantings push the house up above the high water mark, providing a way for water to come in and go out naturally.
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As a boy in the Bar Cross ranch house, isolated in 22,000 scrubby acres, he had devoured a 20-volume children's encyclopedia in which, as on the Web, all knowledge seemed contained.
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SEVERAL MIRAGE 2000 fighter jets took off from an air base in N'Djamena, Chad's capital, on February 3rd and flew north over the savannah and the scrubby Sahel towards the Sahara Desert.
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Yet here we are, standing at the edge of his plot in a community garden, and it's bare except for some scrubby, dying shrubs and what looks like sparse, thick-bladed grass.
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Devout Hindus believe the scrubby site is the birthplace of one of their most revered deities, Lord Ram, and that a temple had stood there before a mosque was built in 1528.
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Reuters reporters on the Bangladeshi side of the border, in Palong Khali district, saw several thousand people crossing from northern Rakhine on Monday, filing along embankments between flooded fields and scrubby forest.
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The commanding figure in this room is a lean and rather haunted-looking man, who stands naked, but for boots, in a lily pond, backed by breathtaking boulders and scrubby pine trees.
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In the distance a female family member stood watch, weaving a mochila, an indigenous purse, with others for sale at her feet or hanging from the overhead branches of a scrubby tree.
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Our goal was to build a golf course that feels like it sits on that site, which is very sandy, with low scrubby vegetation and has a more coastal feeling than anything.
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The new story returns to the South, a scrubby, hard-luck patch of Arkansas where the partners Hays and West catch a case involving two children who disappeared on a bike ride.
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An hour later, I used the resulting lightly scented cleaners to wipe down my countertop and mirror and, with the help of a scrubby brush, break apart the soap scum in my bathtub.
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Surrounded in the scrubby Sambisa forest, Mr Shekau's fighters are hungry, angry and increasingly poorly armed: they complain that their leader is hoarding food and living in comfort with a string of wives.
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The setting is modern Moscow and its environs, and much of the action takes place in the scrubby, unpretty half-world, neither town nor country, that Zvyagintsev has staked out as his patch.
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I love "Gilmore Girls," but every time I catch a glimpse of the scrubby brown mountains that somehow frame Stars Hollow, the picturesque, fictional Connecticut town, all I can think about is Burbank.
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The scrubby pines and sparsely settled hills of the inland Northwest have long been seen as a potential homeland by fringe white supremacists and armed loners who are militantly suspicious of government power.
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While fire seasons are a regular part of life in dry, scrubby southwestern Australia, the same isn't true of the lush, wet forests of northern Tasmania, more akin to those in the Pacific Northwest.
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It opened up, above the town, onto headlands scrubby with gorse and heather, with views of the water all the way across to Wales, before dwindling into a gravel car park, where it ended.
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Reuters TV footage of the Islamic State-controlled frontline shows armed militants, most with only their eyes visible, supervising the evacuations from a scrubby patch of agricultural land scattered with vehicles and a few buildings.
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Credit... AWAGATE FOREST, MALI — For two days, dozens of armored vehicles carrying 133 elite soldiers with the French Foreign Legion lumbered over West Africa's scrubby savanna to reach a suspected hide-out for Islamist militants.
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Global Shopper 6 Photos View Slide Show ' In a still-scrubby section of East Hollywood, near the intersection of North Virgil and Normal Avenues and just next door to Vinny's Barber Shop, sits Virgil Normal.
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MALTA'S CENTER UNTIL the 16th century, the golden-walled city of Mdina, sits on a hill with a view over its thick ramparts and across scrubby plains to Valletta, the current capital, and the glittering sea.
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Letter of Recommendation Somewhere in an unidentifiable patch of scrubby forest, a nameless man labors to make something — an ax, a forge, an entire hut — using only materials that he has collected from the surrounding wilderness.
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I looked out at a scrubby hill full of rabbit holes behind the building (a comforting and very un-Orange County sight) and I tried to do this impossible-seeming thing, this making something out of nothing.
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Over the last five years, China has built ever more sophisticated military and industrial outposts on disputed atolls and reefs, in some cases transforming scrubby patches of rock that barely broke the surface into large concrete installations.
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Near a "tri-junction" where the boundaries separating India, China and Bhutan all meet, reinforcements of several hundred Chinese and Indian soldiers have been facing off ever since, locked in a showdown over a scrubby patch above the treeline.
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Barrett and Mulligan drove past a clubhouse with a blue-and-yellow sign that read "Home of the Lady Eagles," and stopped near a scrubby set of bleachers, where parents had gathered to watch their daughters bat and field.
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Breakfast is served in a former church dating to the 13th century, while for aperitivo hour, guests (not monks, after all) move to a terrace overlooking the scrubby Murgia National Park, filled with its own set of Neolithic caves.
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Once a suffocatingly simple picture of a gas station bordered by a scrubby, highway-adjacent landscape, Edward Hopper's Gas is emblematic of the realist painter's minimalist style, which Hopper painter meditated over extensively before ever even putting brush to canvas.
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Roughly 19623-400 Indian soldiers and an equal number of Chinese border guards are stuck glowering at one another over a scrubby patch of land at a "tri-junction", where the two countries and the tiny kingdom of Bhutan all meet.
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As of Friday afternoon, the Lightner Creek Fire was within four miles of Durango, Colorado, a town of almost 20,000 located in a scrubby, pretty river valley where the San Juan Mountains meet the high desert of the Colorado Plateau.
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Available at every price point — from a $4 drugstore gem to Dior's take on the trendy beauty item — we've combed the internet's vast landscape of beauty reviews to bring you eight of the most-hearted, highly-rated lip scrubby sticks.
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On the scrubby soccer pitches of Cameroon, in the batting cages of the Dominican Republic or in the ice rinks of provincial Russia, sporting success seems like the last, best chance for the world's also-rans to join the global elite.
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The figure's chest is a field of cerulean blue cluttered with a blue star, a donut-like circle, scrubby brush marks, and a brown X, which brings to mind Malcolm X, while the black head and shoulder recalls Ellison's Invisible Man.
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Why risk it when you can DIY your own scrubby sponge instead?) Turns out, for optimum sponge harvest, you should leave the veggie on the vine until the skin begins to shrivel (the gourd inside will be dried-out by that time).
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In the past 10 years, while raising four children, Clara and her husband — doing all of the work themselves — added a second floor with four bedrooms and two baths and transformed a scrubby, barren wasteland of a yard into a lush garden.
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"The Mighty Franks" (the title comes from Aunt Harriet's unironic appellation for her family) is set in the scrubby Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, traditional outpost of musicians and artists, rather than in the security-patrolled enclaves of Brentwood or Bel-Air.
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Most common is a kind of scrubby mark, the brush not fully saturated with paint, that reveals the layer beneath and almost — but not quite — comes up to the borders of its form, as in the pink-gray passage just above the midline in "Descent" (1963).
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At the University of Texas at Austin, the UTest House sits in a corner of the J. J. Pickle Research Campus, a scrubby four-hundred-and-seventy-five-acre plot of land dotted with radio antennae, a prototype nuclear reactor, and one of the nation's largest nonmilitary computers.
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It knows exactly where it wants to evoke realism (in those duels, and the stance), and where it doesn't give a shit about what's real (the entire world and story, the fact that you run around battlefields towering over scrubby enemy soldiers), it just wants to fling blood around.
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Heating the leaves of the desert fuchsia, a scrubby plant also known as emu bush that grows to over a meter and a half high, produces steam that people can inhale to treat chest infections, or it can be used to make a rub to help sore muscles and joints.
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CreditCreditCaitlin O'Hara for The New York Times PHOENIX — It was over 13 degrees in the scrubby sprawl on the city's northern frontier earlier this month, but inside the 40-foot-long thermal chamber, it was 48 degrees — same as it was for the playoff game on that January night in Foxborough, Mass.
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With temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius), Alvaro and his two assistants, Ron Kovatch and Frank Sagona, hauled two large wooden crosses, a shovel, jugs of water and a bucket of concrete powder through the scrubby desert south of Arizona's Interstate 8, weaving through clumps of mesquite trees and saguaro cacti.
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Guam, an American tropical outpost annexed at the end of the 19th century, has been threatened by name by the Stalinist despot of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. A THAAD anti-missile battery sits somewhere out of sight behind the scrubby trees that line this vast airfield, providing anti-missile defence for the island.
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The closest to Shore, in a cohort that includes Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, and Richard Misrach, is his friend William Eggleston, the raffish Southern aristocrat who has made pictures unbeatably intense and iconic: epiphanies triggered by the hues and textures of a stranded tricycle, say, or of a faded billboard in a scrubby field.
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Set in the finger between the mouth of the Churchill River and the rocky shores of Hudson Bay, there is one scrubby main street that leads to the port's ghostly grain elevators, a concrete mall that houses the town's hospital, school, bowling alley and gym, and a handful of basic hotels serving tourists who come for polar bears in the fall and beluga whales in the summer.
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Gossage's best-known work, "The Pond," published in 1985, is a series informed by Thoreau; it includes black-and-white images of a scrubby body of water near Gossage's home, in Washington, D.C. The work at hand had been among Steidl's projects in progress for more than five years, and Gossage's notes and technical specifications had languished in Steidl's analog filing system—dozens of trays lining a wall in his office—while more pressing assignments jumped to the head of the line.
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