Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olympic caliber coach for the Harvard ski team but the Department of Athletics couldn't scrape enough money together to pay him," Carter said...
...century. His father, Francis Anthony Nixon, was an Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...
Connally has hired Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, who can help him beat the charges if anyone can. Why Connally allowed himself to get into this scrape is another question. Though a "poor millionaire" (less than $10 million in assets) by inflated Texas standards, he hardly needed to risk his reputation and presidential ambitions for $10,000. Says a Washington politician: "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe...
...gossip and a laugh or two thrown in. He can even endure Kenneth Widmerpool, that bumptious, obtuse careerist who has moved like an inexorable force through the entire series. Widmerpool, it now appears, is never going to get the comeuppance he deserves. In Temporary Kings he has a close scrape over a bit of cold-war espionage, but extricates his questionable honor and career, typically, at the expense of someone else's reputation...
...Hamburger Degree. Such visits from Kroc are only one of the trials that a McDonald's licensee must endure. His courses at Hamburger U.. though short, are no snap; they cover everything from how to scrape a grill to how to post a double-entry ledger. "This is a hard-working place," says "Dean" Donald Breitkrentz, 36, a onetime candymaker. "Some of these people put in 14 hours a day. They get up at 6:30 in the morning to study...