Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Cross the Yellow Dog-which depicts the Moorhead, Miss., crossing of the Southern Railway and the old Yazoo City Line, colloquially known as "the Yellow Dog"-was inspired by a line from W. C. Handy's Yellow Dog Blues that Cloar had jotted down on a scrap of paper...
...with a hint of irony that she had protested that she knew nothing about politics and was inexperienced in worldly affairs. Besides, "She was plainly dressed and I was not attracted to her style of hairdressing." Beaverbrook's basic motives seemed to be that he loved a good scrap, especially against the established morality...
...aboard the last run of the Biddeford & Saco Street Railroad's Car 31. At the end of the line, they spontaneously passed the hat among the passengers, added enough of their own money to make $250, and bought the car at the price it would have brought for scrap. They moved it into some pasture land in nearby Kennebunkport, and thus began the Seashore Trolley Museum, the nation's oldest and largest. Today it has nearly 100 cars, annually attracts 30,000 visitors who pay 35? to ride along the museum's 1½ miles of track...
...Manhattan's polyglot 19th District, Democrat Leonard Farbstein, a moderate on the war, seeks nomination for a sixth term but faces a rough scrap with City Councilman Theodore Weiss, who demands an end to all bombing in Viet Nam and a U.S. ceasefire...
...great race all right-for a scrap dealer. Otherwise, the 50th Indianapolis 500 was the most amateurish, confused and frustrating auto race in the history of the famed "Brickyard." Fully one-third of the 33-car field was wiped out on the very first turn; the yellow caution light was on for 41 minutes during the 31 hours; and only seven cars were still running at the finish. The winner of what was supposed to be the fastest race in history was less a hero than a survivor: British Grand