Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief social function was that of hunter, but Raven is not a success at the job. He prefers to lie under a tree and scratch. It is Raven's bad luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...
...become a curate. His superiors had to order him to preach for a full 20 minutes when parishioners complained that Schweitzer just "stopped speaking when he found he had nothing more to say." As a sideline, he wrote (in French) a definitive study of Bach, and rewrote it from scratch in German, because the idea of mere translation bored...
...told him to put one together. All last year, behind an anonymous office door, Beaman (a financial editor until he became Fuller's secretary eight years ago) labored in secrecy with a small staff. Rumors floated from Independence Square that conservative Curtis would launch a major magazine from scratch for the first time since Mrs. Cyrus Curtis started the Ladies' Home Journal...
...passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...
Well-scrubbed people who catch scabies have one consolation: their itch is probably milder than the type that makes the unwashed scratch...