Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forward Peter Condakes made a surprise start in place of guard James White. He shot only 2-for-7 from the floor, but managed to scrape out eight points...
Like most of Keillor's work, WLT is set in Minnesota and features characters of prime Midwestern stock-Lutherans, many of them of Danish descent. Ray and Roy Soderburg are sibling entrepreneurs in Minneapolis trying to scrape by in the restaurant business when one of them-they argue as to whom-suggests broadcasting live from the dining room to attract business. "There are great ideas and then there are revolutions and by gosh radio is one of them, it's going to be a Radio Age'...they each remembered saying...
Peanut butter really is the best avenue for a kind and gentle death. Spraying could only be done in the summer, when the house is empty. And anyway, Finn says, "It's more socially acceptable to scrape dead ants off the floor than dead students...
...women called the cops in the early-morning hours of May 27 and reported that they found the youth, naked and bleeding, being chased by Dahmer. Laurie Eggert, a police- union lawyer, said the three officers who responded found the boy highly intoxicated and attributed the bleeding to a scrape on the leg. Dahmer convinced the officers that the boy was his 19-year-old lover and that they had quarreled. When the officers returned the youth to Dahmer's apartment, says Eggert, they saw nothing unusual...
Throughout much of his life, there were warning signs that something was terribly wrong with Jeffrey Dahmer. His stepmother, Shari Dahmer, who was interviewed last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer before clamming up to the press, said that "when he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals." At 18, Jeffrey witnessed the bitter divorce of his parents and lived with his mother in Bath Township, Ohio. But one day, said Shari Dahmer, his mother disappeared with his younger brother, leaving Jeffrey with nothing. Often Dahmer attempted to sedate himself with alcohol...