Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the group managed to scrape by, thanks to food and fuel supplies smuggled to them by sympathetic villagers in Lebanon. Meanwhile Israeli officials admitted that they had expelled 10 of the men by mistake, but added that nine would face charges should they return. Reiterating that they would not take the exiles back, the Israelis suggested that the men be resettled in a third country, perhaps in Europe or the Arab world. A number of deportees said they would stick it out in their camp until they were allowed home. But the snow was piling up. (See related story...
Some Harvard women think their male peers are pigs. But the 10,000 men of Harvard aren't merely testosterone-dripping, skirt-chasing, porn-grubbing phalluses. (We're that, too, but we're not merely that.) Those of us who don't scrape our knuckles against the ground when we walk (possibly a majority) do value mind over body...
...think, in a sense, it's all me, if you scrape away the comic hyperbole of the book. All the fantasies and all the delusions about notoriety and celebrity in the book, although exaggerated vastly, I do have. And I think all people in our generation, or the generations that grew up in the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. I think everyone to some degree or another has been inculcated with these, since we live in a society that's obsessed with celebrity. I think all those are within me, quite truly. I've made comic use by taking...
...definitely happy to get the win," Wheaton said. "But when your defense holds them to one goal--a great goal at that--and you just scrape by, you know you need to get better. We will...
...will take some time before money is nolonger a concern. "Money's always a problem,"Haviaris said. "We have to scrape, pass the hat,and apply for grants...