Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from an old silk stocking. With infinite care, he winds the thread round and round a scrap of rubber until he has a ball about 9 in. in circumference. The boy's mother enters the room unnoticed and watches, frowning, while he wraps the ball tightly with adhesive tape, tests his handiwork with a couple of bounces off the floor. Crude, maybe even a little lopsided...
...population. Yet it was from Pakistan that five jet-borne immigrants started Britain's 1962 epidemic of the more virulent and deadly form of the disease, variola major, that claimed 62 victims and caused 24 deaths. Suddenly, Britain, which had abolished compulsory vaccination in 1948, had to scrap its small annual vaccination budget of $650,000 and stage a $3,800,000 crash campaign. Since then, there have been half a dozen outbreaks in Europe. Today, although Britain has tightened its rules, there is still no universal vaccination. Traveling Britons find themselves in the embarrassing position of being required...
Though the country's imports are still growing faster than exports, the Chancellor promised that Britain will scrap its 10% tariff surcharge in November. The surcharge on imports has run into much criticism, particularly from Britain's trading partners in the European Free Trade Association...
...free sex, flaunting of the libido, and tramping on the flag. Yet in effect Radcliffe has no curfew now. And no one has offered and justification for retaining all the foolish sign-out boxes and secret envelopes to which Cliffies are subjected. Why doesn't the College just scrap the whole business...
...this year -- to give students enough information on exactly how the final version will operate. The lack of communications this year resulted in monumental confusion. As Master Gill has pointed out, any modification should be accompanied by a clear, concise explanation. The Committee should improve the original system, not scrap it, and the compromise proposals seem well-designed to accomplish this refinement. Under no circumstances should the Committee kill or cripple choice in curing "raiding" and the "popularity contest...