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  • She called Brushy an "eerie place that sits back in the mountain," but said it had provided meals for generations of workers.

    The Oak Ridger Home RSS 2009

  • THESE two teenagers accused of killing Calderdale man John 'Brushy' Greer appeared before Calderdale magistrates yesterday.

    unknown title 2009

  • TWO teenagers have denied killing Calderdale man John 'Brushy' Greer.

    unknown title 2009

  • Brushy, urgent, mature de Koonings, including mutable abstractions, raunchy women and light-filled "landscapes," are bracketed by a still life drawn by a 12-year-old student in Rotterdam and controversial, late abstractions made by a sadly diminished, ailing artist a decade before his death in 1997.

    Museums Reveal Degas's Nudes and Islam's Splendor Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Brushy areas peripheral to the nut forests were burned periodically to keep the forest back and the understory of fruit-laden bushes producing.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • A new genus and species of heterodontosaurid dinosaur has been described from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation (Brushy Basin Member) of Colorado, from fossils discovered back in 1979 (it's often a long road, from collection to description).

    Uppity Authors, Scary Vampires, and Whatnot greygirlbeast 2009

  • Brushy areas peripheral to the nut forests were burned periodically to keep the forest back and the understory of fruit-laden bushes producing.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • A threat to close Brushy Lake State Park in Sallisaw, Okla., near the Arkansas border, stirred so much local anger that the city agreed to take it over.

    States Try to Wean Parks Off Funding Stephanie Simon 2011

  • Some history buffs claim Billy the Kid didn't die in the shootout with Garrett and landed in Texas, where he went by "Brushy Bill" Roberts and died of a heart attack at age 90 in 1950.

    Billy The Kid Pardon: Pat Garrett's Descendants Outraged At Bill Richardson's Suggestion To Pardon Gunslinger 2010

  • One of the nation's largest and most precarious coal slurry impoundments, the Brushy Fork pond hovers over the area residents in the Coal River Valley.

    Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Tree-Sitters Shut Down Infamous Mountaintop Removal Operation; TVA Cops Strike Again 2010

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