Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that she insists on having a light by her all the time. Miss Nye enters with a lamp, but she leaves it behind when she exits, whereas Lady Macbeth would never go back to her bed without her light. Miss Nye clearly needs to rethink the whole part from scratch...
Others try to scratch themselves by rubbing against autos, with unfortunate results for the bodywork. Some smash down boundary fences, uproot trees and chase African herdsmen; occasionally, they kill someone. Whether they turn vicious or merely playful, all of them sway and totter about a great deal, as if they were drunk. In fact, they are. Once a year at this time, Kruger Park's elephants go on one of the world's biggest binges...
...dicing made him too worldly. But most of the time through the succeeding centuries, the church had sins larger than gambling to worry about. Both champions and foes saw in it a certain obsessive, hysterical quality. Restoration Author John Cotton diagnosed it as a "witching disease that makes some scratch the head, while others, as if bitten by a tarantula, are laughing themselves to death...
Marsha Goldwyn, 16, was taking the New York State Regents exam last January when she was discovered to have scratch paper filled with extensive notes...
...model backup cars driven by Roger McCluskey and Jo Schlesser. "I didn't know if Mario was still in the car," McCluskey said later, "and I knew I would kill him if I hit him. So I had to put her into the wall." So did Schlesser. Scratch three more Fords...