Word: scrapingly
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...appetite, lived off stored-up peacetime surpluses. It lacks men enough to till its own fields, has had to summon 30,000 agricultural laborers from Italy and import thousands of Polish slaves. Nor can Denmark and Norway be expected to make up Germany's food deficit. Norwegian peasants scrape so little from their rocky slopes that Norway is accustomed to import more than half its food supply. Even Denmark, where agriculture is an industry, relies on overseas trade for 13% of its fodder. Densely populated Belgium and The Netherlands supply but half and two-thirds respectively of their...
...locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly he delivers lectures to persuade Midwest businessmen to scrape up the average $10,000 needed to build a locker plant. Some sales points in his favor...
...privilege to three courses. Many men are willing to pay five dollars a term for evening labs, though the committee frankly states that the University ought to foot the whole bill. In anticipation of the oft-used plea of lack of money, however, it has been able to scrape up a minimum guarantee of about $400, to be paid by the students if absolutely necessary...
...University puts up $500 scholarships for each of the refugee students the Committee will be able to scrape along for two more years with the money raised last year from undergraduates and alumni, to whom 35,000 letters asking for funds were mailed...
Purred back appeased Appeaser Lord Londonderry, longtime friend of Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop: "[I wish Mr. Churchill] were a member of the Government this moment." With a scrape heard round the world the Conservatives thus made Puss Churchill a path to a place by the fire, and politicos with second sight could already see Winston Churchill snuggled into a reorganized Chamberlain Cabinet, probably as First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he filled brilliantly during the World War. In any case, with this great reconciliation a united Conservative Party could brave not only the perils of German aggression...