Word: scrapingly
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Proulx's Wyoming is a hard-pressed place. Baked into desert by chronic drought, poisoned by toxic runoff from mining operations and chopped and diced into real estate, it's forever verging on the uninhabitable. "The country wanted to go to sand dunes and rattlesnakes," she writes, "wanted to scrape off its human ticks." All the same, most of the 11 stories in this book are lighter in tone than those in Close Range, a book that took regular plunges into awe and dread. In a supernatural shaggy-dog story like The Hellhole, about a game warden who discovers...
Somehow in the chaos the flesh was ripped from my right shin, leaving a scrape and bruise resembling a long thin rock under my skin. On my way back out of the arena no one looks me straight in the eye, even the bartenders when I go to retrieve my complimentary Coke...
...thing to read about it in the newspaper, but it's another thing to see them actually scrape the body parts off the street." DOUG MOKE, an American student studying in Beersheba, Israel, on the scene after two bus bombings there killed 16 people. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attacks...
...simplest approach for the U.S. intelligence community would be to fess up. "We got fooled," said the official. "We should just admit it… Saddam wanted us to think he had these weapons ready. He wanted to have them. He had programs. He was doing his best to scrape them together. But he didn’t have them...
...Brussels this week in hopes of finally agreeing on a long-delayed constitution that is anathema to these newly invigorated skeptics, this election was one more crack in the plaster of the European project. Despite its poor showing, Labour avoided a total meltdown, allowing Blair to once again scrape through with his political skin more or less intact. The newspapers have left him for dead countless times, and last week was no different. His political capital is running very low, and backbenchers made the usual calls for him to go, but Blair - fresh from playing statesman...