Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when, by spending his hard-earned money on capital equipment he could not sell at the market, he began to tie himself to the farm. His decision to drop music was painful, but Joe Moore says firmly, "I don't like to do anything half." So into the scrap heap went his ideas of singing professionally, into the attic went the tenor saxophone his mother had given him, and into the business of farming went Joe Moore...
...Scrap Iron & Will...
...communicate with people. Alone, Reuben manages to talk quite well, but as soon as he is challenged by a question like "Can you tell me the way to the BMT?" he falls speechless. He solves his dilemma, after a fashion, by writing down his thoughts on pieces of scrap paper; using this technique, he meets a girl, who eventually, and quite predictably, helps him to resolve his inner confliot. On his way to final salvation, Reuben struggles through a series of improbable intrigues, most of them the Runyonesque products of a superstitious bartender...
...Sixth Game was played back in Yankee Stadium and the Yankees made the most of it. They won, 5-1, stretching the series into a nerve-racking seven-game scrap...
...small but symbolic part of Japan's reparation payment to the Philippines. While the two nations continue to haggle over reparations, the salvage work will proceed, and its cost, about $6,500,000, will be credited to Japan's total debt. The scrap iron will be turned over to the Philippines...