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Word: scrapings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes Rodriguez has garnered financial support from fellowships and research grants. Other times she has managed to scrape money together from outside sources--a strategy she first utilized when her football-crazy high school refused to allocate any money to fund her trip to a national speech competition...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Life of Breaking Down Barriers | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Mallon, who wrote two non-fiction works before publishing his novel, says fiction writing is not a planned process because things "just sailed into my head." Mallon says he likes to describe fiction writing as "like cooking in Warsaw--whatever you can scrape up out of your mind...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Mallon on His Novel | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

...said Harvard served Vellucci's political ambitions well as "a good foil for his populist kind of politics," adding that "when you scrape away the rhetoric," Vellucci is proud to coexist--if not cohabit--with the University...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: If It's Town vs. Gown, Vellucci is There | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...drop in imports. If that happens, less domestic consumer spending will be needed to keep the economy healthy. "There is a risk of recession in 1988," concedes Lawrence Chimerine, chairman of the WEFA econometric forecasting firm in Bala- Cynwyd, Pa. "But my bet is we'll just scrape past it." Not exactly optimism, yet with the year off to a sputtering start, it will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out with The Old, In with the Blue | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...what will I most remember about Harvard many years hence? Probably the walks along the Charles with Jenny, the way we had to scrape and scrimp after Dad cut us off and the look on her face when she died...oh, wait, that wasn't me, it was Ryan O'Neal. Which just goes to show you, art imitates life and sometimes it's vice versa. Other times, it's the other way around. Go figure...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: He Just Did It | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

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