Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sword -his manhood." A better solution would be to hold an annual gangland jousting tournament in Central Park, "which would bring back the Middle Ages." When Wallace noticed the mouse on his cheekbone. Mailer grinned. "Yes." he chuckled, "I got into quite a scrape Saturday night...
...This Happens . . ." Later that afternoon Adele Mailer described the details of that scrape to the police; she readily admitted that her husband had stabbed her with a 2-inch penknife soon after the party when she was preparing for bed. "He was depressed. He just came at me with a funny look in his eye. He didn't say a word. There was no reason. He just looked at me. Then he stabbed me." That night detectives found Mailer, neatly dressed and unshaven, sitting on a hospital bench near his wife's room...
...steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead in giving up some of their property to the peasants. In recent years the cost of living has risen steadily. The nation's foreign exchange has been drained dangerously...
Isolated Addis Ababa seemed an odd place for the hot-eyed young nationalists to hold their big conference of independent African states. Many were irked at having to bow and scrape before their host, Emperor Haile Selassie, whose regime is one of Africa's most authoritarian. But the Lion of Judah had worked hard to make his capital presentable. The girls who staff the city's 5,000 bordellos were ordered not to call to passing delegates. Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep...
...when told that the people of France had no bread, replied: "Let them eat cake." The topper is the Administration's proposal for a voluntary medical plan for aged persons of low income groups. In order to qualify for the proposed Medicare, an elderly person would have to scrape up $274, or a couple, $448. Do the backers of this plan know what it's like not to have $448? Or $48? Or 48?? Many old people...