Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical proficiency will do him little good before the law, which considers a well-performed abortion quite as criminal as a bungled one. The doctor's record will do him no good either. Dr. Brandenburg was first accused of performing abortions in 1942 (no conviction). His most publicized scrape was over an alleged surgical altering of a criminal's fingerprints (his three-year sentence for "concealing knowledge of a crime" was set aside on the ground that he had concealed no offense defined by federal statute...
...Negroes who showed up at the polls were mostly permitted to vote without challenge. Thus, the constitutional issue raised by the new law was not sharply joined. There was only one instance of violence. In the tiny town of Moselle, four white men got into a shooting-scrape over letting Negroes vote; one was killed...
...will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...
...scrape up $6.35 and have even the slightest streak of sentiment in you, try the Ivy League Album. With a half-glass of punch mixed in, you can almost see the big drum rolling onto the field one November Saturday...
...Denver, Don Gallegos watched his wife scrape off fingernail polish with a paring knife, said, "I bet you're afraid to stick me," ended up with a deep gash across his chest...