Word: scratch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just as the baby boomers behave as though they were the first generation to have children or cook a good dinner from scratch, they also approach their gardening with a professional zeal. Traditional gardeners have customarily sought advice over the back fence, from wise neighbors with experience in their particular climate, or from grandparents with a lifetime of trial and error to draw upon. The power gardener, however, doesn't seek wisdom; he seeks information. And so gardening has entered the information...
...first the team consisted of only four people. It would have to start from scratch in analyzing the unexplained losses and trying to find their cause. Not a single member was trained in criminal work. It was clear from the resources allocated to Vertefeuille that finding the mole was not a high priority among the CIA's leaders. Why not? "They didn't want to know," said one intelligence official. "If you find a mole, you have to deal with him. It becomes embarrassingly public...
...Fugitive from a Chain Gang. By the late 1940s, the gangs were well on their way to joining stocks and public floggings in penological limbo. Thus there was little in the way of models when Alabama Governor Fob James decided last year to revive the practice. "We started from scratch," says Limestone warden Ralph Hooks, pointing proudly to a new, specially designed toilet that allows the men to relieve themselves in privacy while still linked to their colleagues...
...draft of a paper in the two or three weeks before classes end and reading period begins. This will serve two purposes: first, it will lessen the burden on students during reading period because they will only have to revise a draft rather than create one from scratch. In addition, spreading out the work of a paper will lighten the load all around. Second, and more important from a teaching standpoint, it will improve students' writing. It is amazing how much better a paper can be when the final draft is not the same as the first draft, or when...
Boston College (19-22) managed to scratch out a run off Crimson starter Hogan in the bottom of the third inning...