Word: scrapingly
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...terrible to watch and impossible not to. That was the nature of the entire week, as America stopped its traffic to watch each clue scrape away another layer of the mystery. Where the facts were missing, the suspicions sufficed to keep the audience fed. When there was nothing new to report, the reporters interviewed each other, covering the coverage and defending themselves against accusations that they had already put Simpson on trial for murdering his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman before he had even been charged...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Scrape the rust off and that nasty film of new Jersey Turnpike smoke pollution, and Harvard knows it has one of the nation's best hockey teams...
...most feminists, men and women are equal because deep down men and women are the same. Not sort of the same, not basically the same, but the same. Scrape away the social conditioning, smash through the corporate glass ceiling, get rid of all the historical biases, and what you have are two creatures who are equally capable of doing whatever the other can do. For these feminists, sexual equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically...
...patients don't get to a dentist before the disease gets out of hand, the treatment used to save the teeth is not pleasant. Wielding sharp metal tools, periodontists scrape germ-laden plaque from around the teeth and under the gumline. If that doesn't work, the usual next step is oral surgery that carves away pieces of infected...
...Uniform Code of Military Justice bars officers from making "contemptuous" remarks about the President or other senior government officials, Campbell could face court-martial, one year in prison and loss of $66,000 a year in retirement pay. However, the White House seemed disinclined to get into a scrape with a man who won the Silver Star in Vietnam...