Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sweeney's goal came only seven minutes after he had taken a solid hit behind the Harvard net. Sweeney had remained prone on the ice for a full minute while the crowd screamed, "Scrape...
Industry experts think the FSLIC can scrape by until Congress returns in January, and S and L officials insist that depositors are in no danger of losing their money. Says William O'Connell, president of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions: "I don't think there is a crisis. The whole U.S. Government stands behind the deposit-insurance funds...
Eddie passes the buggy night grousing on his CB radio. He tells his listeners he is 28 years old, that he has a wife and a ten-month-old, that he is living in an Airstream trailer trying to "scrape it together to build a home" and that his tax statement showed he earned $4,200 last year. He indicts the state wildlife-and-fisheries commission for "selective enforcement," saying, "They don't cut the Cameron boys' nets off." Next he attacks his fellow shrimpers: "The Vietnamese stick together. Even the coloreds stick together. These coon asses, though...
Army is 1-16 over the last two years in Division I. How does Vermont scrape by the Cadets...
...expenditure completely unnecessary. There is no doubt that the money would have been better spent elsewhere. I can think of two possibilities off the top of my head. One is the PBH [Phillips Brooks House] Homeless Committee which, with the help of the Undergraduate Council, barely managed to scrape enough money to keep Cambridge shelters open during a part of last winter. The second is the Undergraduate Council itself which has received an unparalleled number of student grant requests this year from student organizations. I suggest that the Faculty consult students before repeating a mistake of such maddening stupidity...