Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assuming that safety grows with numbers rather than with discretion, the Yard-bound crowds forget about cars in the hope that cars will forget about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely miss indentation. And every so often, of course, a man is knocked down...
Britannia now at the crossroads stands. Shall she pinch and scrape on a widow...
Friedrich Chrysander ran a pickle factory on the side. But for years he lived on little more than rolls and water, and his wife sold flowers in the Hamburg market, to scrape together enough money to finance his life's work. It was to make a complete edition of Composer George Frederick Handel's works. Chrysander died in 1901, with the job far from done...
Back in Washington, Administration officials were doing a little more than just thinking. They were trying frantically to scrape up some dollars. They had some success...
...either of them gets hurt tomorrow, Harlow will have to use the still-shaky Nick Rodis, scrape the bottom of the Varsity barrel, and-or dip down into the Jayvee pool. Doug Bradlee and Rocky Stone will probably have ample opportunity to show their talent against the Indian tackles...