Word: scrapingly
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...staggered ashore on an unknown island, Dixon remembered to outline a plan for avoiding possible Japanese sentries, and to seek out a strong mooring post for the precious raft. Even at that moment he was thinking ahead: if the place was dangerous, or uninhabited, they would rest up, scrape together provisions - and take to the raft again...
McKellar pounded his amendment through. But this week he faced another stiff fight in the House-and in waging his feud he had let his popularity in TVA-loving Tennessee scrape bottom. Said the Chattanooga Times: "If the whole thing could be forgotten and everyone could go on with the war, such adjustments as may be needed in the TVA system . . . can be made at a time when the Japanese and Germans are not at our throats...
Witness Tree is a testimony and a revelation of what Frost has managed to keep, through the happy and tragic years of his life. On the plus side is his passion for the passion that makes flowers bloom, trees scrape stars, and some people love each other. In his latest book, as in his first, Frost still goes for this heavenward earth-love as a horse goes for oats-see parts of his Come In, for instance. When he goes limpingly, as he does on many pages of his book, it is less because of his age than because...
...hardboiled, disciplinarian Lieut. Colonel Leigh Bell, onetime line coach at U.C.L.A., they are broken out at 6:15 a.m., spend the rest of the day at everything from close-order drill to digging emplacements. In wrinkled fatigue uniforms, with packs on their backs, they pile through mud and brambles, scrape out fox holes and rifle pits whenever their "noncom" gives the word. To serve as their enemy in mock warfare, the Training Center employs maneuver-wise enlisted men. Students who make mistakes hear about it on the spot, and errors have to be corrected, no matter how long it takes...
...Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...