Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delicious Legality. The kick is known to hippies as "electrical bananas" or "mellow yellow."* Banana-heads scrape the white fibers from the inside of the peels, boil the scrapings into a paste, which is then baked. The dark brown ash that results is smoked in hand-rolled cigarette "joints" or in pipes, tastes vaguely like a burning compost heap...
...dizzy in the third quarter, wound up the game with a gashed and bruised right hand. "Mike Ditka [6 ft. 3 in., 230 Ibs.] stepped on it," shrugged Wilson, who regards injuries as badges of honor. "If a man comes out of a game without a bruise or a scrape," he says, "he shouldn't have been out there. Football means hitting-and I enjoy hitting people...
...University, and the community. The Patriots, without an acceptable stadium, might sell out to other cities. There have been several offers made recently. Harvard could collect about $200,000 per year, plus improvements on the Stadium. For Boston, professional football is both an economic boon and a promoter. Cities scrape for a franchise during a league expansion...
...Britain, banks are now within 1%, or $47,500,000, of the ceiling on the amount of money that they can lend; many banks are calling some current loans. At the same time, British corporations will have to scrape up around $1.5 billion by year's end to pay taxes on their dividend payments as well as the new selective employment...
...Marcel Hansenne, an assistant editor who finished third in the 800-meter run in the 1948 Olympics; and intellectuals such as Antoine Blondin, a novelist who won the Prix Interallié in 1959 and now writes a regular column of slangy, pun-filled and often sarcastic observations. Reporters must scrape along on salaries of $300 to $350 a month, and even top editors earn only $800 to $1,000; yet many of them quit higher-paying jobs on other papers to join L'Équipe. Why? "Because," explains Grand Prix Racing Reporter Johnny Rives, "I do the kind...