Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard bats were silent in the next three contests: but the team kept on winning with a combination of scratch singles, sacrifices, steals, and brilliant pitching...
Unscratched Itch. Republican committee members were just itching to question Jenkins-but the Democrats refused to scratch. "It wasn't necessary to call Jenkins," insisted North Carolina's Democratic Senator B. Everett Jordan, the Rules Committee chairman. "We had his affidavit. There's no conflict. There's nothing to get excited about...
Stephen Goodwin's "Scratch" contrasts with the tightly drawn plot of "A Common Mistake." The story meanders from a description of a river, to a poker game, to a quarrel between two men over money, to violence over a pool game. Structurally, "Scratch" is a terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard...
This is clear, forceful writing. As a short story, "Scratch" is a failure, but no one can realistically expect perfection from undergraduate writers. The technical side of writing can be learned, but Goodwin has the one necessary endowment of a developing author--a facility with words, an entertaining style. It is the lack of this attribute which makes the rest of the Lion Rampant a failure...
...Pepper Coast. Liberians had to build their country from scratch. "We did not have the luck to be colonized," is a standard Liberian joke, and it is true that there were no imperial rulers to leave behind post offices and palaces, schools and hospitals. The population, which the government estimates at around 2,000,000, consists of a 99% tribal majority living in primitive isolation in the back country and a 1% governing minority called Americo-Liberians, descended from a group of freed U.S. slaves sent to the Pepper Coast of Africa with the backing of President James Monroe...