Word: scrapingly
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...Waving at him gaily, Vag slammed the window shut, cutting off the stream of cold morning air, raising a minute cloud of coal dust, and waking the other figure in the process. The Vagabond bounded into the bathroom, applied shaving cream, and, with worn razor blade, briskly began to scrape at his face. "Five hours to game time, and plenty to do," he mused...
...divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central Park zoo, and for evenings out, walked down to 42nd Street for a 10? Wild West movie, stopping for a hamburger...
...University of Chicago graduate student (philosophy), living in a tiny prefabricated shack with his wife and baby. The Graebners have seen only one movie in the last six months. By skimping in this and a dozen other ways, solemn, 31-year-old Martin Graebner manages to scrape through on $140 a month. The G.I. Bill of Rights allows him $90. He makes up the difference by acting as campus Lutheran chaplain...
...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
...anyone . . . try to survive and keep his family alive, to furnish a pleasant place to live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...