Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official side trips to communes and factories, and visited an army base. CBS's Dan Rather ventured into a Peking short-order shop where he found, to no one's great surprise, Chinese eating such things as pork stew and noodles. Trying to pick up any scrap of news, everybody followed every move Mrs. Nixon made. NBC's Barbara Walters, one of three women included in the press group, hovered so close to the First Lady that other members of the press contingent nicknamed her "No. 2." Mrs. Nixon, in fact, should be given a gold-plated...
...money will be used for research on molecular biology, cellular radiation biology, tumor immunology, and the genetic effect of radiation. Many of these study areas were already under research, although, as Hellman added, "We would have had to scrap a number of these projects without this support...
Examples of resourcefulness abound in the studio. Sally Glazer '72, the technical assistant in charge of the clay room, mixed as much as 600 pounds of clay a week during last semester's peak periods. The purchase of large quantities of studio clay, and the careful use of recycled scrap, meant that Glazer could keep the cost of clay under a nickel a pound. Since ready-mixed clay costs two or three times this amount, the studio saved over $600 on clay for the first semester...
...notes, and some new conclusions about Arnheiter. He chose to stick with the style he knew best--a newspaper format chocked full of "he said"s and "however"s; in light of Arnheiter's suit, had retained his first draft. But happily for the reader, Sheehan decided to scrap the 120,000 word manuscript which resulted from his first efforts, adopting instead straight dialogue and third person narrative. The end product is a spry and carefully-woven chronicle of the career of one of the Navy's most public lunatics...
Well, little by little they turned red ... So I walked away and called Noah and said to him, "Turn that goddam thing into scrap metal. Close up the shop. Project's finished...