Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa, political stability is a thin veneer that can flake off with the slightest scratch of a military finger. Since mid-December, three black governments* have been toppled by military coup. For a while last week Nigeria seemed on its way to becoming the fourth. What makes Nigeria different is that it is no tiny tinhorn republic. It is the continent's most populous nation (56 million people), its economy is one of Africa's most prosperous, and-with 250 tribes and tongues-it has long been considered one of Africa's most democratic and stable countries...
...many as 36,000 letters an hour can be fed into a conveyor system that carries them past a cathode-ray tube. The tube's scanning beam locates the last line of each address, converts it to electrical impulses that are recorded on an electronic version of a scratch pad. They are then read by a computer that recognizes city, state and ZIP code characters by comparing them with 6,000 combinations of standard characters...
...story. While I'm up there, I'm completely un-self-conscious...a lot of burlesque is really all in fun... I'm glad you can't see the audience while you're up there. If I saw someone really leering, I'd be embarrassed," she said, starting from scratch to put on her costume ("I hope I'm not embarassing anybody...
...money, a first-stringer got $400,000, and a rookie lineman collected $150,000 just for signing a contract. This year the battle for graduating college stars figures to be fiercer than ever, if for no other reason than that each league has one new team to stock from scratch: the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League...
Chief Joseph was splendid in defeat. When he came riding into the white man's camp that cold, snowy morning in 1877, there was a bullet scratch across his forehead, wounds on his wrist and back, and bullet holes in his shirt and leggings. Handing his rifle to Colonel Nelson Miles, he spoke: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. The old men are all dead. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away...