Word: grates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe junior, who worked in the American embassy in Moscow this summer, said she had "felt tension in the air" all through her stay, but had no idea it would result in the Russian government's blackball of her father as diplomatically a "personna non grate...
...almost imperceptibly, the merchants' movements assume a nervous, nearly furtive air. They start at the slightest sound--the clank of hoof on manhole, the raccous grate of a newly varnished sash, the quick scratch of a mongoose at a loose floorboard...
...well, go beyond those implied in his new title, for the Dean of Admissions will also serve as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Scholarships and Financial Aid. In this capacity, Dean Bender must find new financial sources to support the fast-diminishing Scholarship Fund. And he must inter-grate and policy with admissions policy more closely than has been done in the past...
...event that oure Pilgrimme fathers hae decreed the morrow as a feast day during which much of a wild birde beknownst as Thurkee will be consumed in grate quantity, the editares hae decided upon no towne crier on that...
...have been hearing this knock for three years-ever since they put in the new pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other, and the noise echoes in the car. Grumbled Novak: "I swear that nearly every high-school kid in Detroit has driven this street. They even have parties on my front lawn. Maybe if you tell them what it is, we can get some sleep again." City engineers...