Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although his choices were few, he continued to scrap like the Agnew of old. He called the charges "damned lies," and toured the country, scoffing at the accusations and asking for support...
...government subsequently said it would scrap the lucrative management contracts that had been worth $40 million a year to the leading copper companies, Anglo-American of South Africa and American Metal Climax...
...across the Charles, ridiculed and down-graded during the early and faultering stages of emergence, struggling against the interest and facilities and innate attitudinal bias of a male oriented community, striving and pushing the nose of its program into a male-oriented and dominated sport, gathering and cherishing every scrap and morsel of attention, keeping logs and impossible hours, answering each derogation with a confidence foreshadowing with a wisdom and clairvoyance a perception far beyond its maturity, thrusting itself into the midst of its sport and claiming the only championship in crew that the Harvard community could muster. Radciffe crew...
...Scrap of Tissue...
...outcry over experimentation on aborted human fetuses [July 30], which by the fact of having been aborted are not considered to be human beings, strikes me as ridiculous. If our society has decided that a human fetus is no more than a scrap of tissue attached to a woman's body, and therefore sanctions its removal at her whim, then surely it is foolish to become outraged by experiments performed on it, any more than it makes sense to become outraged about an experiment performed on an excised tumor...