Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson defense had to scrap to turn back the Dartmouth attack, but full-backs Adam Keller and Rick Scott made very few mistakes. Scott cleared the ball to his forwards time and again, but to no avail. Goalie Peter Aschaffenburg's performance was steady, and two diving third-quarter saves kept Harvard in the game...
...down!" After a national outpouring of emotion, Congress quickly appropriated funds for the restoration of the frigate. It is still docked in Boston Harbor, a symbol of America's longtime affinity for tall ships and deep water. Poetry may have been enough to save a ship from the scrap heap then, but in an age more closely attuned to the demands of economics the sight of the Stars and Stripes fluttering from the flagstaff of a liner appears to be a luxury that is excessively costly to support...
...roommate goes to his desk and finds a scrap of paper inscribed with the words "Eat Me" on top of his Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary...
...prospects are that the triumvirate will quietly scrap Costa's plan for a revised constitution and a civilian Congress. For the present, Lyra Tavares can be expected to pursue Costa e Silva's role as a "moderator" in fending off the Young Turk officers who want the military to clamp an even firmer grip on the country. That is a task that may grow more difficult now that the original moderator has been muted...
Under intense pressure from the financial community, Kennedy proposed to water down the House's tough tax treatment of long-term capital gains. The House bill would scrap the maximum 25% tax rate on such gains and force investors to hold their stocks and other property for a year instead of six months to qualify for such favored treatment. Kennedy would retain the old rules, but limit the amount of gains to which they could be applied...