Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONSERVATION. I wonder, theoretically, if it's right that the auto industry should chew up as much raw materials as it chews up. I don't think we've done as much as we should with scrap. A lot more should be done with recycling materials...
Although Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, may have viewed his proposal to scrap the one-to-one ratio at the Quadrangle Houses as a simple resolution to provoke discussion of the housing issue, the new Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life representatives did not share his opinion...
...summoned the once imperious committee chairmen to appear before them one by one to state their position on the party program. If the chairmen try to behave with their traditional independence and ignore party instructions, they risk being removed. Such a strengthening of the opposition party means a rougher scrap for Ford on the Hill...
With a man as unbridled as Ruth and a legacy as clouded as the sensationalistic scribes of the day could make it, documentation becomes as important as imaginative writing. Creamer has compiled every scrap of information available, from the early Baltimore days to the Babe Ruth Days held for him as his retirement, dispelling a slew of misconceptions as he goes along. He has gotten comment from many of Ruth's mates from the bush leagues up through the majors and there are times when you think he had the whole 1927 Yankee team wired for sound...
Shero offers no apologies. Of Dupont, Kelly and Shultz, he says, "I've been blessed with their abrasive natures. They make other teams wary and cautious." As for the Flyers' penchant for penalties, he explains, "we get more because we scrap more. We get into more fights because we check closer and make more contact." Indeed, hard contact is the heart of Shero's tactical philosophy: "I don't have any use for a player who only looks for the puck in open space. He has to be willing to make contact, to use his stick...