Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major shooting scrape in the continuing California political feud between Vice President Richard Nixon and Governor Goodwin J. Knight came on Aug. 8, 1954, in their fight for control of the Republican State Central Committee. Knight won hands down, installing his men both as chairman and vice chairman, largely because many of the committee members are appointed by state legislators who are notoriously sensitive to the governor's patronage and his veto power over their pet bills. Since then, it has been generally taken for granted that "Goodie" Knight could do much as he liked with the State Central...
...North Africa. Even before last week's rioting, 80,000 North African Jews had applied for free transportation to Israel, but last week the Jewish Agency's Immigration Committee set the country's "absorptive capacity" for this year at 45,000, and doubted that it could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened economy. No longer are there abandoned Arab villages to be filled, no longer is there fertile land, once worked by the Arabs, to be brought to plow; there remain...
...book), the boy was to be arrested in the raw at a railway station-"a kind of Strip-Jack-Naked. He's parted with everything, or they've taken it." In the 82 slaphappy and possibly autobiographical pages Thomas finished, the kid slides from one loony scrape to another, encumbered much of the way with a Bass ale bottle that has unaccountably got stuck fast on his finger...
Young Tom Watson was no ball of fire in his studies in school. He went to private schools in Short Hills, barely managed to scrape through Hun School in Princeton. After graduation from Brown University, he joined IBM. Starting at the bottom as a salesman in Manhattan's financial district, young Tom soon proved that he was his father's son. In an area where previous IBM salesmen had never made 100% of quota, he hit 231% and hung up a record. Says his father: "That was the only right way. He had to make his own records...
...order is expected to go into effect immediately and will direct the Licensing commission to require all alcoholic beverage license holders to scrape out their beer coils...