Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines told it, the story of congressional debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine was a step-by-step battle over phrases. With the doctrine passed, the story is something far bigger: the story of a historic step in U.S. foreign policy that began with a scribble on a yellow scratch pad. It is told exclusively in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Eisenhower Doctrine...
...crucial hours of the October revolt, Warsaw Committee First Secretary Stefan Staszewski backed Gomulka to the hilt, mobilized thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...
Immediately following the 1500 meter event all participating coaches retired to the Special Exercises Room of the IAB for a scratch session from which will emerge announcement of final entries and heat line-ups for today's races...
...swollen" federal budget, he said, speaking from notes scribbled on a piece of yellow scratch paper, "is the greatest single inflationary force in the country today. I assert, without any fear that the statement can be refuted in any way, that we cannot bring down federal spending for domestic purposes so long as we increase our foreign-aid program...
Henry Wente in the broad jump continued his superlative progress as he cleared 22 feet, just missing the finals. The mile relay team of Sandy Dodge, Bill Morris, Jim Cairns, and Dick Wharton made the finals, but had to scratch, when Cairns, who had just run the 600 and the 1000, became ill. Neither he nor Dick Wharton qualified in either...