Word: rubs
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Scrapie is a disease of the nerves and muscles of sheep, so named because bleating victims rub themselves against fence posts or wire to relieve the itching that goes with it, and in doing so scrape off valuable wool. In later stages the animals get the shakes and staggers, so the French call the disease la tremblante. Last week veterinary researchers were engaged in a transatlantic argument over whether scrapie is hereditary or infectious, or-as would be scientifically most exciting-whether it has features of both. Medical investigators from New York to New Guinea were as keenly interested...
Scholars are not a notably generous lot. When they review one another's work, the friction of dry skin is almost audible as they rub their hands over a colleague's failure to sustain a thesis, his reliance on a wrong date, a superseded document or, better still, a bogus one. An expert on the receiving end of this kind of abuse is famed Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. His massive, ten-volume Study of History (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954) left him vulnerable on at least two scores: 1) it became the most widely discussed history of modern times...
...lived next door, "you knew Oscar had gone to bed." By this time Oscar had come to have a paternally protective feeling about a basketball, once chewed out a university publicity man for casually bouncing a ball on the pavement. "You'll ruin that ball. You'll rub off the grain and throw it off balance...
...rub is that Dorian has bested Lucky on her own home ground-and in two years has revolutionized Paris modeling. She did it simply by starting the city's first successful agency (partly to take her mind off the Marquis de Portago, who fathered her fourth child but died in a 1957 auto racing accident before he got around either to marrying her or adopting the boy). Her first business problem was a French law that forbids charging a fee for finding someone employment (a clause she evaded by charging the fee to magazines or photographers rather than...
Canada pointed a disapproving finger at the U.S. - not merely because of competition or the inevitable abrasive rub between adjoining economies. The complaint is that the U.S. controls Canada's economic destiny and holds it back. Long uneasy over the extent of U.S. ownership of Canadian industry and the southward flow of the rewards (60% of all Canadian corporate dividends are paid to foreign investors), Canadians now argue that the U.S. saps Canada's strength, preventing the necessary industrialization for its rising population. At the head of the chorus stands Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, crying...