Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There can be no time to savor the well-deserved victory over Boston College for the members of the Crimson hockey team. Even as Boston Garden employees scrape away the last traces of Monday night's ice, Harvard will be tested once again--tonight versus Cornell...
...nearby hillside, where the Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave the Indian self-respect; it gave him a hold over his conquerors...
Four minutes later, Moot streaked in along the left boards and fired a blinding slap shot that the Warrior goalie didn't see until he turned around to scrape it out of the net. Just 27 seconds later, Dunderdale set up John Marchand and Harvard...
...Detroit's factories, which he saw as a model for Europe, alarmed him. These bleak experiences reinforced his conviction that the Western world was collapsing and goaded him to cast himself as a doomsayer, as "Cassandra-Celine," who in 1939 gleefully harangued his friends with prophecies of war: "Scrape out your entrails, my heroes! Come and have your breasts stuffed, my brave ones! ... All to the scrap heap, guts everywhere. The debraining is going to start...
...Once the board gets filled up, it can just all be removed, and then you can scrape it clean, repaint it, and use it all over again," he explains...