Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
...anyone . . . try to survive and keep his family alive, to furnish a pleasant place to live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
...Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew off The Red Mill. Hence the show is an amiable relic. It is frankly a horsecar- not a horsecar pretending...
...week armored cars clattered through the streets to the Quirinal Palace and heavily armed carabinieri doubletimed to the piazza in front of Crown Prince Umberto's spreading, magnificent home. The common man ran for cover; he did not want to be caught in the middle of a shooting scrape. Actually there was no shooting: it was just more protection for Umberto after a series of antimonarchy demonstrations by the hotheaded, leftish Republican Youth Movement...
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee all but completed his Government. But he had had to scrape the Labor Party barrel for experienced talent...