Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrapie is a disease of the nerves and muscles of sheep, so named because bleating victims rub themselves against fence posts or wire to relieve the itching that goes with it, and in doing so scrape off valuable wool. In later stages the animals get the shakes and staggers, so the French call the disease la tremblante. Last week veterinary researchers were engaged in a transatlantic argument over whether scrapie is hereditary or infectious, or-as would be scientifically most exciting-whether it has features of both. Medical investigators from New York to New Guinea were as keenly interested...
...philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife." The age worshiped good sense, yet "the High Priest of Reason," Dr. Johnson, would scrape his knuckles with a penknife till they were raw, and insisted on touching every post when walking down a street...
...auditorium filled with some 4,000 Navy and Marine officers marched spray-fresh Navy Secretary John B. Connally Jr. to punch at the featherbed. Connally had called the meeting of every officer in the Washington area, including 65 admirals and Marine generals, to inform them that the Navy must scrape off its barnacles and gear for space-age change...
...visitors from the University of Pennsylvania, however, endorsed Radcliffe's "almost ideal" educational set-up. "There is a thirst for knowledge that Penn lacks," affirmed Jacqueline L. Zahn, Penn '62. "Radcliffe comes closer to realizing its academic goals. At Penn we just seem to scrape the surface...
...chestnuts and cereals, Kuniyoshi got his first glimpse of the U.S. through the prosperous-looking tourists who came into town. When the time came for him to be called up into the imperial army, he decided that the U.S. was where he wanted to be. His father managed to scrape together $200 for him, but Kuniyoshi was so confident about the land of opportunity that just after he landed in Seattle in 1906 he sent all but $50 back...