Word: scratching
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...covers her fear with ferocity and blistering outrage at the ineptitude of the cops on the case. When she becomes romantically involved with Quinn, their love scenes have the scratch-and-bite fury that people generate when they are not at all sure they're doing the right thing. Whatever she's doing, however, Stowe transforms an ordinary sort of movie into something extraordinary...
Locating a gene from scratch, says Collins, is like "trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on." Even the most comprehensive DNA chart available -- the human-genome map completed late last year by Daniel Cohen and colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris -- is terribly sketchy and riddled with errors...
...concentrate in Classics takes Science A to fill a requirement, then falls in love with the material. This person has a three-sided problem. A Physics Core exemption has been wasted, a Science A will be credited as a precious elective and the aspiring physicist must start from scratch in the department. To make things worse, Physics 5 probably repeats some of the material from the Science A that lured the student away from Classics...
Maybe you watched your parents scratch their heads in bewilderment year after year as they struggled to cut and append to the family's Holiday Card List: If we sent a card to the Johnsons last year but the Johnsons dissed us, is it okay to dis them back this year? If the family dermatologist gets a card, does the family veterinarian get one too? How about the family insurance agent? What the hell is his name again...
...first thing that distinguishes the two programs is that NT is a stand-alone operating system, while Windows runs on top of MS-DOS. Because its core sections (known as the kernel to computer professionals) were written from scratch, NT is free of all the quirks and limitations for which MS-DOS has gained much notoriety...