Word: scrapingly
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...keep his grievances and his precarious freedom to himself. He went to New York and teamed up with Earl Conrad, a white newspaperman who once worked on a Negro paper, and they turned out Scottsboro Boy, a raw, violent, unsparing book published last month. It was calculated to scrape old wounds and inflame Southern readers...
Bubble gum, bubble gum, scrape your...
...merely permissive wording, far more intelligent application, and a publicity policy which can scrape the seereey from the State Department's decisions, would help combat the doctrine of guilt by association which has just cost American colleges another valuable...
Traditional treatment for the stiffened joints of arthritis has been to scrape the ends of the bones, then wrap the exposed bone surfaces in a smooth material to keep the scar tissue from sticking the joint together again. But in the knee joint, where wear & tear is heavy, such an operation gave only short relief: as the material wore out, the joints stiffened up again...
Like the others, she had managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water...