Word: scrapingly
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...will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...
...scrape up $6.35 and have even the slightest streak of sentiment in you, try the Ivy League Album. With a half-glass of punch mixed in, you can almost see the big drum rolling onto the field one November Saturday...
...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...
...better. The Student Council, probing the matter, is finding out what too many people have known for too long: there is no office space, no convenient meeting place, in short, no facilities at all to be had within the University. As a result, the smaller organizations presently scrape out bare existences, scurrying from Junior Common Room to Junior Common Room, and carrying on their office work in somebody-or-other's overcrowded...
...which of 19,000 applicants would get the 416 new houses. About 2,000, including women with babies on their backs, slept in the subway; others grubbed for a roof in rusty tin sheds, converted barges, burned-out buses or the ruins of a temple. Curiously, the natives could scrape together enough lumber and rice straws to fashion a monstrous symbol: in the town of Sahara, a malevolently glowering American eagle was paraded in tribute to the new Japanese Constitution...