Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scratch the Scabby Sheep. Sent to French schools in Hanoi by her rich lawyer father (now South Viet Nam's Ambassador to the U.S.), Madame Nhu still speaks only halting Vietnamese, converses mostly in French. She met her future husband while wandering through a library where he was chief archivist, married him in 1943. Three years later, she was captured by the Communist Viet Minh while her husband was away on a trip; she was held prisoner in a remote village until, with the help of a Catholic partisan, she escaped to be reunited with Nhu in Saigon...
What messed things up was an amendment offered by Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter. It would have scrapped a redistricting plan already painfully worked out in Pennsylvania, forcing the state to start again from scratch-or run all its Congressmen at large. After hot dispute, the amendment was adopted...
...gigantic undertaking. At least 14 to 18 months of painstaking preparations had gone into each of the previous U.S. test series. But J.T.F. 8 will have had just four months to get ready for April's blasts. What is more, the task force had to begin virtually from scratch. President Kennedy long ago gave up any idea of testing from the familiar sites at Bikini and Eniwetok because of their small size, the proximity of populated islands and the inhibiting fact that the U.S. administers both atolls by U.N. mandate -a point that roused international ire during past tests...
...other words, the Common Market's Fouchet committee could start from scratch again this week when it begins another round in planning One Europe -an irresistible idea, which Charles de Gaulle may dislike but which will be left for the generation after Charles de Gaulle to achieve...
...Japanese. Konosuke Matsushita's name means "lucky man beneath the pines," but his success owes more to pluck than luck. While he was still a child, his parents and five of his seven brothers and sisters died in rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because he saw more future...