Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency." Robert Meyner, the handsome New Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures of the state's pro-Kennedy Democratic bosses. He thus won a niche-or, more correctly, a wall scratch-in history (41 first-ballot votes for Meyner), but lost his high hopes for a Cabinet job. "I want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite...
...areas in the world could profit more from water than Tunisia's Sahel region, where some 4,000 farmers scratch out a living. But U.S. Development Loan Fund technicians argued that there was not enough water in the Nebana River to warrant building a dam. "It might be no more than a beautiful white elephant," said an observer...
...fascinating rascals!"--fantasies analogous to those which, by his own testimony, occupied much of Shaw's attention during his virginal youth. The view which permeates Getting Married, however, is that sex is an undignified sort of anatomical itch, which nobody of any character would get married in order to scratch. This doctrine does not strengthen the claim of those who hold it on the interest--not to say the credulity--of an audience...
...were billeted in a second-rate hotel seven miles from town. It was the U.S.'s Special Envoy Robert Murphy whose towering figure bobbed up most frequently at the side of the Congo's new leaders. As a birthday present for the country that was starting from scratch with virtually no lawyers, doctors, educators or trained administrators, he announced that the U.S. will finance scholarships for 300 Congolese students to attend American universities...
...week, while kids with autograph books were besieging his long-forlorn Orioles in the lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Richards ordered a breakfast of prune juice, dry cereal and coffee in suite 727-729 and leaned back to talk about the task of building a winner from scratch...