Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, there are four more mounds to be excavated, and Dr. Negahban hopes that these will tell him what ancient people lived in the Goha Valley and buried their treasure there. "I won't leave a scrap," he says. "I won't budge until all the mounds are finished...
...before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused him of trying to rig the Democratic Convention for Kennedy...
...Scrap Irony, by Felicia Lamport. Humorous verse with an unusual twist: frequently it is funny...
...most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords is to charge $200 or $300 key money for "fixtures" that seldom amount to more than a broken-down chair. Worst results of the housing shortage: thousands of split families...
Professors from Columbia University are raising funds to distribute and reprint a letter published earlier this month by 200 Boston area professors urging President Kennedy to scrap plans for fallout shelters...