Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneven. high MIG, but it disappeared in a haze. The wingman tangled with the diving MIG, which had a resourceful pilot in the cockpit. When the wingman had tired himself out trying to get a shot, Low took over, and the Red pilot almost tired Low out, trying to scrape him off against a high ridge, then trying to blind him in the sun. At last Low got the enemy in his sights, poured .50-caliber slugs into the engine and tail section, saw the MIG's canopy fly off. But the American needed a few more hits...
...roofed hovels known locally as Bidonville (Can Town), an angry mob was forming. There the criers were beaten up before they could deliver their message. Glib agitators harangued little knots of Arabs while others began hiding stones under their burnooses. From shack after shack came the ominous scrape of crude knives being honed...
...remember the plot from high school: after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion-Hearted languishes in the castle of his Austrian kidnapper while Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns to England to try to scrape up ran-some money for him. But why bother with plot when there are horses and lances and axe-fights and slain knights dropping into moats like so many pebbles? The seige of Torquilstone castle is especially good. It starts in the biggest shower of arrows since Henry V, and culminates in a first-rate conflagration...
...Cornwall with the accession of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, became a party of the first part in his first real-estate deal. The little parish of Kingswear in Devon wanted to buy five acres of his land for a children's play park and finally managed to scrape up the ?5 ($14) which the Duchy of Cornwall said would do for a token payment...
...first year was bitterly hard. "Just existing was quite a struggle," recalls Pat Aid. The school grew to 15, then 24 students. The school had to move out of the orphanage, and scrape together $1,700 for a down payment on an empty house. Unable to pay all the bills, the parents appealed for help. They got $181 from a rummage sale, $800 from a Spokane summer theater, a $500 loan from a doctor. It cost about $300 per semester to teach each retarded child, and the bills kept piling up. For three months Patricia Aid got no pay; once...