Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between these extremes. They admit that social attitudes cannot be changed overnight simply by inventing words. But even such terms as "Ms" and "chairperson" they insist, really do help meet needs created by the growing independence and authority of women. Many people (not all of them men) would rather scrape their fingernails across a blackboard than hear such ugly and artificial neologisms especially when they are propounded on the unproved assumption that it will do some public good. But most new words seem awkward at first. Over the centuries the ones that survive do so only because they are useful...
...denial. When Scott trumpeted his story this year, former Liberal Chief Whip Cyril Smith immediately pronounced it "ludicrous." But next day Thorpe's credibility suffered a major jolt when his longtime friend Peter Bessell, a former Liberal M.P. who moved to the U.S. in 1974 following a financial scrape in Britain, admitted that he had paid Scott a "retainer" of $15 to $30 every week or so from 1968 to 1970. Bessell insisted that he, not Thorpe, was the target of extortion by Scott, explaining that Scott had learned of a liaison Bessell once had with a secretary. Nonetheless...
...scene in the movie which doesn't reek of the Noah Cross character's scent. If there's any weak spoke, it's the banality of the "Chinatown" theme, which never really rings true. Nicholson, it seems, can dip endlessly into some well of inventiveness and charm and never scrape. His J.J. Gittes destroys and transcends the romantic stereotype of the hard-boiled dick; the more he learns about power relations, the less he finds himself able to do about them. The movie is a wonder--it ought to be shown annually at the American Realtor's Convention to teach...
Living conditions are likely to be difficult at best. Personnel at the base have to scrape frost off the windshields of their Jeeps each morning, but before long they will be sweating out midday temperatures that can reach 130° in unshaded areas. Flies and sandstorms are routine, hailstorms are seasonal. To ease the inevitable boredom, there will be tennis, volleyball, movies, and television from both Cairo and Tel Aviv. There will be no swimming pool, however, because there is not enough water...
...crisis had only been temporarily averted. Officials expect the city to scrape through November-though not even that is sure. In December New York faces certain default unless it gets federal assistance. Thousands of city bondholders will be affected. Among them is Jacqueline Onassis. The forthcoming issue of MONEY reports that at her insistence a pre-nuptial trust established for her by Aristotle Onassis was invested entirely in New York City bonds and provides a tax-free $100,000 of her $341,000 annual income...