Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced his candidacy and immediately ran into a nasty, costly primary scrap with moderate Republican George Christopher, former mayor of San Francisco. Tom Kuchel, who usually avoids involvement in state party squabbles, loudly backed Christopher in the primary, saying, "I know where he stands-which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan." Nevertheless, Reagan won with 64% of the votes -and pulled 50,000 more than Governor Brown did in a much closer Democratic race against maverick Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty...
...infancy (she was a whiz at toilet training, never gave trouble about sucking her thumb, and later got A's in practically everything) up to an affair with some undocumented type in nondocumentary films. She was an only child, and Mother and Father kept and treasured every single scrap of paper she ever scribbled on. Probably that was a mistake. In any case, Rona spares no detail of life in grade school and high school, until the reader may well be desperate enough to try that martini, cherry...
...both. I believe that there are those in this impressionable world who might be led to believe that a PBK member from Harvard was necessarily a better student than one who was not a member. Under present conditions, this assumption is simply not true. Why not scrap this behind-the-scenes "hocuspocus" and determine election by objective means: by giving a certain weight to (1) the student's average, (2) his generals, and (3) his thesis--and nothing else. The highest 90 on such a scale should be elected. Those below would at least know why they were rejected. Inclusion...
...puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order to get food. But when Chu's forces joined up with the neighboring Red bands of a guerrilla leader named Mao Tse-tung, Lin was exposed to a guerrilla technique that was later...
...Suddenly her friend was at her side. Why couldn't ther be deck chairs for hire? "People steal them," said the commissioner. Then how about miniature golf near Riverside Drive? "Hmm," said Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving, and in ten seconds he was sketching miniature-golf courses on a scrap of paper. "Sure," he said gaily. "It could work...