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  • But Monson clearly wants these well-scrubbed, caffeine-free Mormon men to make this a higher priority than, say, Broadway tickets to the new smash musical Book of Mormon.

    Prophet to Mormon men: Put a ring on it 2011

  • Even the accompanying videos have a similar look — lots of well-scrubbed faces, “fun” jewelry and hair product galore.

    2009 December : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • There was a cross section of well-scrubbed university students, crunchy anarchist and a lot more older folks than I expected.

    Feliz L. Molina: Poets Occupy Philadelphia in Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street Feliz L. Molina 2011

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • The well-scrubbed former Wimbledon boss was for a while the Benedict Cumberbatch of slump arresting.

    Down go the fairy lights and down go Middlesbrough's promotion hopes | Harry Pearson 2012

  • But joyous children (and their dogs) are everywhere: tearing through the maze of alleys, clomping through puddles, singing with delight in their cheap, tidy school clothes in their cement (again treeless) schoolyards, and playing in grimy streets under the watchful eyes of worn-out mothers who sit on their well-scrubbed front steps in their threadbare frocks.

    Intimate History 2010

  • Later, the Persians come to wash the well-scrubbed floors with the blood of children.

    They're still our lads... zornhau 2009

  • There was a cross section of well-scrubbed university students, crunchy anarchist and a lot more older folks than I expected.

    Feliz L. Molina: Poets Occupy Philadelphia in Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street Feliz L. Molina 2011

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