Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking him to the hospital have four flat tires and run into a brick wall that's holding nuclear warheads and TNT. And if he should survive that, let him be thrown into a patch of wild dogs that's suffering from flea-itis and may he scratch himself insane. When he gets to the hospital, let the doctor be a junkie with a gorilla on his back and an orangoutang in his room. Let the hospital catch on fire, and every fire hydrant from Nova Scotia to wherever he was born be froze up. Let muddy water...
...could either collect or deliver, Julian had to check into the very place where the U.N. detained him two years ago: a hospital now run by the Danes. As the colonel explained, rolling up the leg of his elegant grey trousers: "I go through five wars without a scratch. But coming down here in the plane a Coke bottle falls off the stewardess' tray and wrecks my knee. If I weren't a darky, you'd notice the discoloration...
Clark escaped mostly because his car was too slow. Driving a new model Lotus-Climax that had been wrecked last April and practically rebuilt from scratch, Jimmy was having engine trouble, was running on only seven cylinders. After four sputtering laps, a mechanic waved a message board that read "Surt -20." With 16 laps to go, Ferrari's John Surtees already had a 20-sec. lead...
...contradiction between greater expenditures and more economy. Thus, it was with great pride that he last week announced the results of the cost-reduction program that he has pushed relentlessly. In fiscal 1964, which just ended, the Pentagon had saved $2.5 billion. "We haven't even begun to scratch the surface," McNamara claimed, estimated savings of $4.6 billion by fiscal...
...smallest boats in the race, Burgoo proved to be just right for the light, fluffy breezes that turned the 635-mile ocean race into an uneventful weekend cruise. Short-tacking furiously for the last 20 miles, Burgoo crossed the finish line in 109th position-almost 20 hrs. behind the scratch boat, Cornelius Bruynzeel's 73-ft. Stormvogel-still won by 30 min. on corrected time...