Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was his. To his horror it arrived covered with relish. Relish did not agree with Lucius, and he determined to take it home and scrape...
...good Private Eye doesn't get in trouble-he doesn't get hit with surprises. If you do a decent job, you don't have violence." In 13 years of sleuthing, says 41-year-old Investigator Lipsett, he has been involved in only one serious scrape...
...hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio...
...also made the New York police blotter last week by getting in a scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was charged with assaulting a policeman, and had his performer's permit suspended...
...Roof), his participation in this featherweight import may come as something of a surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema history have all been box-office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that of the once brilliant Italian film industry-when he haltingly asks a doctor: "Isn't there something to-reinvigorate? Just once in a while...