Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ober, hard by the Boston Common. Books, as distinct from best sellers, just aren't thought important, he says. He notes with disgust that even in the most literate city in North America (that's Boston), the leading paper (the Globe, though he deplores its preachiness) barely bothers to scrape together a Sunday book-review section. And justifies this lapse (says Higgins, a onetime Globe columnist) because it doesn't get enough book ads. "Does the Globe's sports section get enough ads for baseball gloves and hockey sticks? No. That's where you see ads for snow + tires...
Stolid houses and spacious yards. The whir of hand-powered lawn mowers in the summer, the scrape of snow shovels in the winter. Romberg on the radio, dinner at the country club once a week, a trip to Paris once a lifetime. Dad wears vests, Mom wears funny hats, the maid nips at the cooking sherry (must speak to her about that). If their son makes eagle scout and one of his sisters pledges Kappa, does it really matter that the other daughter decamps for Greenwich Village and a scattershot involvement with "the arts" that her parents will never understand...
...mind the makeshift stairs, the creaky floors, the peeling walls or the paint chips falling on my head. (I later learned that the press box was the only part of the ancient stadium that had undergone renovations.) I wasn't thrilled about the large beetle I had to scrape off my seat. But what really made me nervous was the presence of only one telephone in the box. The local radio station was using it for its direct feed. How would I send my story...
...when the splashing subsided on Friday afternoon, Santa Barbara was on top, 23-3, and some were considering sending a diving team to scrape the Crimson off the bottom of the pool. Liz Brummond chalked up Harvard's first goal of the game in the third quarter when Santa Barbara had already scored three touchdowns. Tri-Captain Gillian Salton and freshman Skyler Satenstein rounded out the Crimson's field goal for the game with a goal apiece in the final quarter...
Harvard scored a run in each of the next four innings to take a 9-1 lead before Cornell managed to scrape up two runs in the fifth to account for the final score...