Word: scrape
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...plan was deliberately contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium payments...
...Mississippi," explains Pete Brown, 34, who earned $8,356 on the tour last season, "we weren't allowed to play golf, but me and some of the other Negro caddies used to scrape up a few clubs and sneak onto the course at dawn or even late at night." If nothing else, adds George Thorpe, 26, a second-year pro from Roxboro, N.C., "playing by moonlight sure teaches you how to keep the ball on the fairway...
Harvard showed the effects of its lay-off against Penn even though it had little trouble defeating the Quakers. Playing under sub-standard conditions--the Quakers' Zamboni broke down and the players had to scrape the ice with shovels between periods--Harvard suffered through two sloppy periods before regaining its sharpness in the final period...
...could not have been for these that the Congressmen and Senators were cheering. They weren't cheering the President himself, either; Johnson is not a very likeable man, and he is not going to be missed, not even by those who have managed to shuffle and scrape their way into favor during the chaotic, bloody years of his reign...
...dreadful, though never mutually acknowledged, duel began. As Effie came to see it, Ruskin was bent on forcing her to leave him not merely by his neglect but by throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what she quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism of the age, a wife in name only. Eventually she understood that in abstinence lay salvation, via a virtuous annulment. Where once she had wanted Ruskin...