Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the hope that Russia might unbend to admit Americans to forbidden Soviet cities, among them Vladivostok and Sevastopol, the U.S. decided to allow any Russian tourist who could scrape up the kopecks to enter such once barred territory as the state of Massachusetts, most of Tennessee, and the cities of St. Louis, San Diego and Las Vegas. But the 400-odd Soviet diplomats and journalists in the U.S. will still be confined to the environs of New York City and Washington, D.C., just as their U.S. counterparts are still ordinarily confined to a few Russian cities...
...Amherst Harvard combined four singles victories with one in doubles to scrape past the Lord Jeffs. At third singles, Vic Niederhoffer lost a tough, three-set decision to Amherst's Roger Alcaly, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. Harvard dropped two doubles matches, but Sullivan and Frank Ripley easily won their crucial match at first doubles...
...host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money to meet the 48-hour deadline. Lionel politely supplied the cash...
...Laurence on-camera. But when someone asked about a scar on her knee, she proved that her ad libs remained as freewheeling as ever. "Oh, that," said Sarah. "The Archduke of Austria gave me a ride on his motorcycle, and I fell off. He didn't bow and scrape and click, but he said he was the archduke. And he wanted me to come home with him and meet Mother Archduchess...
...cotton crop has paralyzed textile mills, unemployed workers are being used as street cleaners. And it is becoming hard even to die. In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served. Other corpses must be buried in paper cartons, though some families scrape together enough wood to make triangular coffins, saving on corners...