Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about it on the spot, and errors have to be corrected, no matter how long it takes...
...Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...
...monumental dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court bench, Brandeis objected to size--to financial pyramids, to huge monopolies, to interminable leases. When speaking of the necessity for control of such institutions, he was fond of quoting an old German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies...
...returns are good, the hat may be passed on a nationwide scale this summer. How much aluminum scrap there is in U.S. pantries and basements, no one knows. But 0PM calculates that if each U.S. family gives up one pound, it can scrape together 30,000,000 lb.-better than a fortnight's production...
...fire, knives, legalistic arguments were of no avail in the face of a bigger issue. Ex-Senator Matt Neely was a friend of the Administration, and last week the Administration could still dig up enough political debtors, scrape together enough votes to run the Senate. The president of Fairmont State Teachers College got his job by just two votes...