Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers will probably feel the same. It's the natural reaction to a lousy picture...
...acres in Cleveland County, N.C., Namon Hamrick barely managed to scratch a living as a farmer. He tried cotton, grains and cattle at various times, but, he says, "I never cleared over $1,000 off of farming in one year in my whole life." Then Hamrick tried an entirely new kind of crop. He has prospered so well with it that farmers all over the nation have telephoned him to ask for advice. Hamrick's new crop is golf...
...backbone of the Strategic Air Command, can stay in the air little more than 20 hours. Even if drastically rebuilt with LFC wings, their flight time might increase at most to 33 hours. For really effective loitering, says Warner, an LFC missile platform should be designed from scratch. With economical new turboprop engines, the new plane would be able to stay in the air for three days, cruising almost anywhere on earth. One proposal is to arm these loitering ships with low-flying missiles capable of streaking to their targets under the searching beams of enemy radars. The mere existence...
Arts Course. For the first time, a multinational deterrent would allow Europeans to collaborate with the U.S. from scratch in targeting, contingency planning and control of atomic weapons; it would satisfy their acute desire for atomic know-how by giving them a thorough education in complex technological and financial nuclear realities. For both sides, it would provide an added, substantial token of U.S. determination to remain in Europe and defend its allies with the ultimate weapon, if necessary. Says a U.S. defense planner: "This is one thing that can put glue in the alliance...
...England" (Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard?) to walk its sands while memorizing the whole play. Death took this gracious person, and he is grievously missed. The part of Choregos, which is probably the heaviest in the drama, was then assumed by Mr. Frank Hewitt Birch, who started from scratch without one word of Greek, sang Mr. Lodge's ingenious music most movingly, especially his lament for the King, and, at expiry of the final performance, fainted back stage. "Cold water on my face and a shot of whiskey in my gullet knocked me to my feet so I could take...