Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honest Farmer Robert Mitchurn. After Rory, on a raft, come Widower Mitchum, his ten-year-old son (Tommy Rettig) and Actress Monroe. In making the trek, Mitchum wrestles in turn with a mountain lion, a knife-wielding badman, several Indians, and Marilyn. She gives him by far the toughest scrap. Mitchum also plays a scene calculated to set up a wolf-call cacophony from one end of the nation to the other: he sternly tells a drenched Marilyn to get undressed, and then gives her a brisk rubdown while, the Monroe epidermis is covered only by a blanket...
...your temper. Give it to him cleanly, according to the rules, but give it to him.'' Young Frederic C. Dumaine Jr. never forgot that advice. Now 51 and head of the family's $28 million New England empire, Buck Dumaine last week was in the toughest scrap of his life, fighting according to the rules but as hard as he could...
...custom in Iranian elections, it was all pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
...prosperity . . . The best service that the Government can render to our economy besides helping to maintain stability and insuring a floor of protection for the population is ... to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production, to improve or scrap the old ones, design new products and develop new markets, increase efficiency all around, and thus be able and willing to pay higher wages and provide better working conditions...
...Historical Example. At first Italians showed resentment of Alcide de Gasperi for the quick and unceremonious demise of the Pella regime; his picture was even booed in some newsreel theaters. The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano took the rare step of publicly entering a political scrap-on Pella's side. But with surprising haste much of the newspaper following which Pella had built up petered away within hours of his resignation; two of Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible...