Word: scrapingly
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...HELL. E.J. was a widow for a day. Relatives who were sure Mike was alive called again to ask if they were hallucinating. Then reporters tracked him down at the firehouse from the number on his helmet, and a correction was made: Mike had indeed survived without a scrape...
Person of the Week FADING OUT Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has cut off communications with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, calling him "no longer relevant." Can the overshadowed former freedom fighter re-energize his moderate power base and scrape his way back to the negotiating table...
...uncovered the body’s face, because I think the other people covered her with a T-shirt, and I saw a scrape on her forehead and possibly blood near the chest area, but it was hard to tell because the woman had dark clothes on,” she wrote in an e-mail. “The girl’s body looked all stiff, and she was on her back and looked like a dead crow with her hands and arms...
...buying store-brand food instead of expensive brands; they translate into eating in soup kitchens, going without meals to feed their children and salvaging other people’s leftovers out of the trash. They work upwards of 80 hours a week not to save up, but to barely scrape by. And at a University world-renowned for its exceptional medical facilities and public health research, Harvard service employees often do not receive health benefits...
...symbol in the fund drive to complete the construction of Currier House. The Currier House shield also discreetly refers to the Currier family. The term “currier” in French describes people who used a curved knife with the sharp edge on the inside to scrape the hair off animal hides to prepare leather for tanning. At either ends of the blade were wooden handles; such knives are suggested by the scallop patterns in the horizontal black bar. The symbolism of the hide scraping is multi-layered, for it can also suggest that education...