Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes before several German planes had for no apparent reason bombed a farmhouse. They went away, and after a while seven women who were desperately in need of food went out to scratch for potatoes; not really good ones-small potatoes. They had to eat even if there was a war, and those potatoes were all they could...
...careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that she cursed him, she replied: "I'm sorry about the language but I work with pilots and say 'damn' like an adjective...
...last war anti-submarine warfare started from scratch. At one time Britain tried to train seals to hunt submarines. Various more practical expedients were tested-mine barriers, nets,-"mystery ships" (disguised trawlers and other craft which pretended to flee from submarines, then suddenly unmasked guns when the pursuing U-boats came close). Most effective defense against submarines was found to be the convoy. But the British wanted to hunt down the subs and destroy them. The problem was that of a blind man groping for a frog in a fishpond. So the British decided to use ears instead of eyes...
...ninety minutes these human cats scratch and claw each other, and while it is quite amusing throughout, the length of the film and the constant repetition of the one and only idea make the picture a trifle boresome. Go to see it, by all means, though, for if you don't you'll be missing one of the treats of a lifetime...
...Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his blue book. Slowly he puts his pen away, closes his book, puts on his coat, drops his blue book in the box, and wanders out into the sunlight,--into freedom. All through...