Word: scape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While changing a tire near Scape Ore Swamp at 2 a.m. last June, Christopher Davis was set upon by a 7-ft.-tall scaly lizard with glowing red eyes. As Davis tells it, he jumped into his Toyota just as the creature's claws grabbed the door handle. Swerving left and right, the 17-year-old boy managed to shake the beast off. He shared his story with a few friends in nearby Bishopville. Then last month Mary Way reported that her Ford LTD was scratched and clawed near the swamp. Sheriff's deputies initially tied the two events together...
...Everyone wants to place the blame on the easy scape goat, the police, but there are more people to blame than that. The whole administration is responsible," said Associate Chancellor James Leheny...
...positive side of Community membership, such as the grants and subsidies Britain has received for highway improvement, job-training programs and aid to depressed areas. The opposition Labor Party, in its 1983 general election manifesto, pledged to pull Britain out of the Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only 33% of Britons consider membership "a good thing." Nevertheless, domestic politics had much to do with why Thatcher changed her stand. Her handling of the 17-week-old coal miners' strike, which has produced...
Johnson and his supporters admit to considerable drug problems in Area B. but they blame the crime rate on declining police budgets. Fewer police means more crime and, Johnson's supporters argue. officers at the top unfairly become scape goals...
...twelve, Liang Heng found wall posters in a public square denouncing his father as a "foreigner's dog" and a "thoroughly capitalist newsman. "His father, Liang Shan, had become one of the scape goat intellectuals of the 1966 Cultural Revolution. In tears, Heng ran home to demand of his father "Is it true that you're a bloodsucker?" His father could only respond with "You should always believe the party and chairman Mao...I should examine myself thoroughly "Throughout Liang Heng's autobiography Son of the Revolution, his father's response to the repeated political catastrophes that afflict the Liang...